TY  - JOUR
T1  - AId for chronic illness
Y1  - 1949/03/05
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900270033010
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 649
EP  - 650
VL  - 139
IS  - 10
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900270033010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900270033010
ER  -