Community Health Organization: A Manual of Administration and Procedure Primarily for Urban Areas

This well known book gives the most complete and comprehensive, as well as detailed, description of how a community can organize itself for health. It deals with official agencies, voluntary agencies, hospitals and outpatient facilities, the financial aspects of health in the community, health surveys, school health services and the newer health problems, such as nutrition, mental hygiene, industrial hygiene, cancer and heart disease. To the medical reader the book is disappointing in that it gives less attention to the part played by organized medicine in community health organization and in that it does not acknowledge the fact that many of the health surveys and so-called health studies which have been made in recent years have been challenged as to their validity by the medical profession. Each chapter includes a table of salaries and other budgetary items, which in most instances are considerably in excess of sums which most cities