Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America
Silent Victories: The History and Do of Broadcast Health in Twentieth-Century America Books
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Americans’ health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Broadcast health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America’s broadcast health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing array of health problems. As the disease burden of the ancient scourges of infection, perinatal mortality, and nutritional deficiencies started to lift, broadcast health’s mandate expanded to take on new health threats, such as those resulting from a changing workplace, the rise of the automobile, and chronic and complex conditions caused by smoking, diet and other lifestyle and environmental factors. Broadcast health measures nearly everlastingly occur on contested ground; accordingly, controversies and recriminations over past failures often persist. In contrast, broadcast health’s many successes, even the imperfect ones, become part of the fabric of everyday life, a fact already apparent early in the last century, when C.E.A. Winslow reminded his peers that the lives saved and healthy years extended were the “silent victories” of broadcast health. In its exploration of ten major broadcast health issues addressed in the 20th century, Silent Victories takes a unique approach: for each come forth, leading scientists in the field trace the discoveries, practices and programs that reduced morbidity and mortality from disease and injury, and an accompanying chapter by a historian or social scientist highlights key moments or conflicts that shaped broadcast health action on that come forth. The book concludes with a look toward the challenges broadcast health must face in the future. Silent Victories reveals the lessons of history in a format calculated to fascinate to students, health professionals and the broadcast seeking to know how broadcast health advanced the people’s health in the 20th century, and the challenges to protecting health in the future.
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Presume life without immunizations, food safety, fluoridation, seatbelts, anti-smoking messages, and prenatal care. Yikes! Your life expectancy just dropped over a quarter of a century. Silent Victories makes clear the accomplishments of broadcast health in Twentieth Century America. Some chapters more compelling than others, but overall, a fascinating read on the history of broadcast health.
Rating: 5 / 5
The improvement in broadcast health is one of the fantastic triumphs of the United States in the twentieth century, but the tale of how this miracle happened has been largely ignored. At the turn of that century the average American may possibly guess to live 50 years, and 120 of every 1,000 American infants died. By the year 2000 life expectancy had risen to 77 years and infant mortality reduced to 6.9 deaths per 1,000.
The editors, Dr. John W. Ward of the Centers for Disease Control with Dr. Christian Warren of the New York Academy of Medicine, have done an brilliant job of scholarship and assembly. Divided into ten broad theme areas, from Control of Infectious Diseases through Tobacco and Disease Prevention, the book is scholarly, comprehensive, and yet readable enough for the layman. Highly not compulsory for those with a professional interest in this theme.
Rating: 5 / 5