A Method for Studying the Public Health Worker and His Job: The Yale Study

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Functional Distribution of Working Time in Five County Health Departments: The Yale Study

“…Participating in the tinme study were 114 professional and semiprofessional workers-8o percent of those meeting the qualifications establislhed by the Yale project (2) . They were classified according, to public lhealth service, whichli was usually but not always synonymiouis witlh discipline, as follows: medical service, 8 The average daily elapsed time on the job, on the basis of a 5-day week, for all workers in the five county lhealtlh departmenits was 8 hours and 41 miniutes.…”