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The 1920s and '30s is a period of substantial growth for public health activity. It's also a period in which private voluntary organizations, first the Rockefeller Foundation, Commonwealth Fund, Rosenwald Fund, many other foundations that are family foundations basically, entered the field of medicine and public health with a view of improving the public's health, community health, and access to medical care. And there's great hope and belief that increased medical care will increase public health as well as personal health. ...There's excitement about what medical science has produced and there's more confidence that public health can do things. ...The one area where I continuously see in public health documentation, retrospective reference to influenza, is saying we didn't have enough trained personnel on-hand. And that I think is important. This is a period of building professional training for medicine and public health in numbers of different areas.
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