THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S NATIONAL COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CENTER IN THE SANITARIAN'S PROGRAM1

1968 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh E. Eagan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Service Agency ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Mortality Weekly Report ◽  
The Public ◽  
Training Aids ◽  
Subject Areas

The National Communicable Disease Center is the Public Health Service agency for the control of all infectious and certain other preventable diseases. The Center functions through organizational elements called programs—Epidemiology, Laboratory Improvement, Training, Tuberculosis, and Venereal Diseases. There is no program at the Center that does not affect the professional sanitarian as a member of the public health team. The Center's services in the field of epidemiology, in consultation, in laboratory aids to diagnoses, and in practical procedures affect directly the sanitarian's own program. The publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, reports epidemics caused by organisms disseminated by food, milk and water. This information should be invaluable to the sanitarian. The Training Program has the more significant effect on the sanitarian's effort to control infectious diseases. It provides not only training in the field of sanitation but provides services that state resources cannot afford, among which is help in developing and improving state training programs by producing training aids and the stimulation to use them. The Center's training program's contribution to the sanitarian consisted of twenty-three course subject areas directly connected to disease control by methods involving the alteration of environmental factors. In these courses, attended by 2,213 persons, 42% were engaged. directly in the sanitary sciences. Of the 24,000 total enrollment in 1966, 66% of the persons were from local and state health departments.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-285
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Medical Engineering ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The Public

I appreciate very much your invitation to bring to the readers of Pediatrics information about summer assignments in the Public Health Service, the qualifications required and the results that may be anticipated from a few months' experience with our Service. For more than four years, now, the Public Health Service has made available summer employment to a limited number of students in medical, engineering, and basic science professions. The practice has proved beneficial to the Service in providing assistance to selected public health clinical and research projects. It also has offered actual working experience in a supervised environment for students in the medical and allied scientific fields. Many students and a number of deans have expressed appreciation of the opportunities which summer employment has contributed to the professional training and development of the students. Our reason for initiating the summer program has been twofold. We need the temporary assistance of competent students in many of our operating and research programs and we want more students to become acquainted with the reasons for the conduct of public health activities. Students selected for these assignments receive civil service appointments which begin at the close of the academic year and terminate early in September. The salary is $284 a month. These summer assignments cover a wide area of Public Health Service activity. They range from laboratory research projects at the National Institutes of Health to investigations of communicable disease problems at the Communicable Disease Center; from clinical assistant posts in venereal disease clinics to assistant-ships in our psychiatric hospital; from studies of industrial plant hazards to epidemiological investigations of psittacosis.

REGULATORY PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM PIPELINE MILKING*

1954 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 340-341
Author(s):  
H. E. Eagan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Equipment Design ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cleaning Procedures ◽  
Regulatory Problems ◽  
Design And Construction

The wider utilization of pipeline milking on the farm has resulted in the adaptation of cleaning-in-place procedures for these types of installations. The problems involved in such procedures have led many health departments to issue special regulations. The new developments in equipment design and cleaning procedures should not be hindered by stagnate regulations. The 1953 edition of the Milk Ordinance and Code Recommended by The Public Health Service accepts the principle of pipeline milking and the cleaning-in-place procedures, but acknowledges that design and construction standards should be flexible. The cleaning and bactericidal treatment of this equipment must be determined by the usual standards of inspection.

scholarly journals Milkborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease, England and Wales, 1992–2000

2003 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. GILLESPIE ◽  
G. K. ADAK ◽  
S. J. O'BRIEN ◽  
F. J. BOLTON
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Intestinal Disease ◽  
Significant Morbidity ◽  
Infectious Intestinal Disease ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unpasteurized Milk

From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2000, 27 milkborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease (IID) were reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC). These outbreaks represented a fraction (2%) of all outbreaks of foodborne origin (N=1774) reported to CDSC, but were characterized by significant morbidity. Unpasteurized milk (52%) was the most commonly reported vehicle of infection in milkborne outbreaks, with milk sold as pasteurized accounting for the majority of the rest (37%). Salmonellas (37%), Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157 (33%) and campylobacters (26%) were the most commonly detected pathogens, and most outbreaks were linked to farms (67%). This report highlights the importance of VTEC O157 as a milkborne pathogen and the continued role of unpasteurized milk in human disease.

MILK ORDINANCE AND CODE 1953 RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE*

1953 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
John D. Faulkner ◽  
Milton E. Held
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Raw Milk ◽  
Dairy Herds ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Laboratory Results ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Dairy Technology

The new edition of the Public Health Service Milk Ordinance and Code represents the first complete revision since 1939. Many significant changes and modifications have been mode therein to keep abreast of advances in the fields of dairy technology, veterinary medicine, and public health. Among the most significant changes are strengthening of the provisions relating to brucellosis control in dairy herds; inclusion of methods for the cleaning-in-place of milk plant pipe lines; changes in the requirements for the cooling of milk on dairy farms; and an option that health departments may accept, subject to official check, industry's laboratory results of tests of raw milk for pasteurization. The 1953 Milk Ordinance is a mandatory-pasteurization type; however, a list of the changes to be mode to permit the sale of Grade A retail raw milk has been included for those communities unwilling to require compulsory pasteurization. A new feature is the inclusion of a separate Appendix which contains much of the explanatory material formerly scattered throughout the Milk Code.

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Rehabilitation Service ◽  
Social Security Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Social

Within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), the Office of Education, the Office of Human Development, the Public Health Service, the Social Security Administration, and the former Social and Rehabilitation Service (now part of the Office of Human Development) all have a role of one sort or another in Africa or African affairs. HEW activities range from educational grants to research studies to the training of Africans. The programs carried on by each office are discussed below.

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