Tóm tắt
The National Communicable Disease Center is the Public Health Service agency for the control of all infectious and certain other preventable diseases. The Center functions through organizational elements called programs—Epidemiology, Laboratory Improvement, Training, Tuberculosis, and Venereal Diseases. There is no program at the Center that does not affect the professional sanitarian as a member of the public health team.
The Center's services in the field of epidemiology, in consultation, in laboratory aids to diagnoses, and in practical procedures affect directly the sanitarian's own program. The publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, reports epidemics caused by organisms disseminated by food, milk and water. This information should be invaluable to the sanitarian.
The Training Program has the more significant effect on the sanitarian's effort to control infectious diseases. It provides not only training in the field of sanitation but provides services that state resources cannot afford, among which is help in developing and improving state training programs by producing training aids and the stimulation to use them.
The Center's training program's contribution to the sanitarian consisted of twenty-three course subject areas directly connected to disease control by methods involving the alteration of environmental factors. In these courses, attended by 2,213 persons, 42% were engaged. directly in the sanitary sciences. Of the 24,000 total enrollment in 1966, 66% of the persons were from local and state health departments.
