Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tests conducted with Dartmouth undergraduates, advertised products were best remembered when the commercial announcements appealed to selfesteem. Other appeals, in order of their persuasiveness : prestige, health, universality, sex, efficiency, economy, beauty, safety, comfort...
...today are about 110 voluntary health-insurance groups, which render services to some 2,150,000 members at a low annual rate. Most of those providing complete medical care are privately owned clinics established by doctors, such as the highly successful Ross-Loos Clinic in Los Angeles. Rapidly growing, however, are cooperative clinics, established and owned by laymen who pay, in addition to initial stock investments, a small annual sum for medical care. Most conspicuous of the cooperatives is the Group Health Association in Washington, D. C., at whose behest the Government is now prosecuting an antitrust action against...
...powerful Oklahoma Farmers' Union backed the plan, and in August 1931 the Community Health Association, Inc. formally opened a trim, two-story brick hospital...
...assumption that mental and physical health are closely related, the Hygiene Department has in the past few years become increasingly interested in the study of a boy, not as a purely physical entity, but as an integrated personality. As cases poured into the psychiatric and medical departments, it became evident that they were getting a very one-sided picture of college life--were completely concerned with the outlook of the maladjusted boy full of miscellaneous terrors, real or imagined injustices, and evils of every sort. Thousands of others, well-adjusted to their environment, never were contacted; and to get their...
...rural areas, that collective medicine finds its most crying need. While state hospitals and charitable institutions have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse and Buggy Days. Only by efficient, economical use of the new weapons...