Educating for Health: A Study of Programs for Adults

This book deals, as its title indicates, with health education programs for adults. The author starts out with a brief review of health education down through the ages, finding little prior to Chadwick and Shattuck in the nineteenth century. Approaching the modern picture he gives a general outline of educational influences in the community and then proceeds to discuss specific organizations engaged in health education, including the American Public Health Association, the American Medical Association, the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the voluntary health agencies in such fields as of tuberculosis and mental hygiene. Attention is given to the Red Cross, the Maternity Center Association of New York, the New York Academy of Medicine and other community groups. Much attention is devoted to health centers, as exemplified in the health districts of Greater New York, and to health departments as educators. The book is an excellent and comprehensive