RT Journal
T1 AMerican public health association resolutions
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD January 15
VO 139
IS 3
SP 157
OP 158
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900200027013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900200027013
AB On page 159 of this issue appear two resolutions adopted at the annual meeting, held in Boston in November 1948, of the American Public Health Association.One resolution deals with cooperation in the school health program and calls on the National Education Association and the American Medical Association to cooperate with the American Public Health Association and other groups in approving the principle of cooperative planning of health programs which involve children of school age. This resolution expresses the long declared and well implemented policy of the American Medical Association which began with the first meeting of the Association in 1847 and has been continuously a guiding principle in its policy. Since 1911, the American Medical Association and the National Education Association have cooperated through a Joint Committee on Health Problems in Education. Frequent symposiums, on health of school children have been held at American Medical Association meetings. The Association