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Norman W. Hoover, MD

JAMA. 1970;212(12):2114-2115.

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Comprehensive health care, health delivery systems, community medicine—these are the contemporary idiom of medical rhetoric. We have now become greatly concerned with problems which are not new to us, but only newly recognized. In his recent book, Health and the Developing World, John Bryant¹ has paraphrased a universal problem:

Every medical success must be measured against the needs of all. Every effort, every cluster of resources, must be divided by the total number of people. The insistence on using this denominator—all the people—has profound social, political, ethical, and educational implications.

The United States has been protected by its affluence from the compelling voice of society, until now. We are lately dealing with matters which have forced the attention of other nations for a generation. We cannot afford to ignore their experience.

The World Medical Association was formed in 1947 as a meeting place and common forum for physicians of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
AMA Department of International Medicine Chicago

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