RT Journal
T1 AId for chronic illness
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD March 5
VO 139
IS 10
SP 649
OP 650
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900270033010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900270033010
AB The American Medical Association has joined with the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association and the American Public Welfare Association in an Interim Commission on Chronic Illness1 to promote programs for the control of chronic illnesses in every state. The commission is the outgrowth of recommendations from the Section on Chronic Disease of the National Health Assembly, over which Dr. James R. Miller, a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association, presided. He is chairman of the Interim Commission and will be a member of the permanent commission. About one sixth of the population of the United States has some chronic disease. At least 2,000,000 persons in the United States are at this time chronic invalids. The facilities and the methods for care of those with chronic diseases are in general inadequate in almost every section of the country. The Interim Commission has