AT the recommendation of the Tech.nical Development Board, the Governing Council has voted to consolidate the Committee on Health Manpower and the Committee on Professional Education to form a Health Manpower Council. Therefore, this will be the final report of the Committee on Health Manpower. It will emphasize recommendations which may aid in the transition to the new organizational structure.Two meetings of the Committee were held since the last annual report-one during the time of the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, and the other in mid-May of this year. The following is a summary of information presented and actions taken at those meetings with additional notations concerning progress since the time of the last meeting.
Today, as never before, the need for an intensified and intelligent health education program in the battle against tuberculosis is being felt. We are confronted with complacency because people are aware of the declining tuberculosis mortality rates but they do not know about the number of new cases that are being found; they do not understand the relationship of tuberculosis to socioeconomic conditions and other factors which affect the standards of living of communities. They read about the curative power of “wonder drugs;” of tuberculosis patients dancing in the wards. They read feature stories about the closing of prominent private sanatoria and presume that there no longer is need for beds for tuberculosis patients; and they are beginning to read about out‐patient clinic services and a reduction of the time spent by patients in sanatoria. The tuberculosis picture is changing and we need to keep the public acquainted with the developments which affect this major public health problem.
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