Child Health Services in Iowa: Report of the American Academy of Pediatrics Study of Child Health in Iowa, September 1949

Abstract

This report of child health services in Iowa is part of a nation-wide study which has been in proogress for three years under the direction of the American Academy of Pediatrics, with the cooperation of the U. S, Children's Bureau and the U. S. Public Health Service. The study was conceived in September 1944, when members of the American Pediatric Society expressed their belief that physicians should assume greater responsibility in planning for the medical care of children