PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE HEALTH SYSTEM

Public Health and the Health System

Public Health and the Health System

The agency responsible for the public health of the American people are The Public Health Service (PHS) administers several critically significant wellbeing bureaus encompassing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Before 1968, the Surgeon General was the head of the PHS, and all program, administrative, and economic administration ran through the Surgeon General, who described exactly to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1968, the Secretary delegated line blame ...