A selected public health bibliography with annotations.

Abstract

Students who avoid the mistakes their teachers made often make the mistakes their teachers avoided.-SOURCE UNKNOWN Between 1950 and 1964, eight periodic-health-examination clinics accepted 20,648 men, mostly white and in managerial and higher income levels. During this more than 138,000 manyears of exposure to the risk of death, 1,018 men died. The ratio of actual to expected deaths in the total population examined varied from 0.60 to 0.997; for men examined two or more times, the ratios were lower. The data are compatible with periodic health examinations having a favorable influence on mortality experience, but well-controlled prospective studies are needed to permit more definite conclusions.