THE VALUE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

The newly developed possibilities of the public health nurse have helped change the aspect of public health administration. Trained, sympathetic women are a force in home health education. They have fields in prenatal work, the preschool age, in school inspection and follow-up and in the industries. Their duties begin with conception and end with the grave.     

THE VALUE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

The newly developed possibilities of the public health nurse have helped change the aspect of public health administration. Trained, sympathetic women are a force in home health education. They have fields in prenatal work, the preschool age, in school inspection and follow-up and in the industries. Their duties begin with conception and end with the grave.     

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION OF HEALTH AND WELFARE DEPARTMENTS

This author suggests separate departments of public service, safety and welfare. Fire, police and health would be divisions of public safety. Public welfare should include social welfare, public schools, public library and recreation. Social welfare should dispense all relief funds, and teach mental orderliness in homes with highest grade of trained nurses for teachers.     

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION OF HEALTH AND WELFARE DEPARTMENTS

This author suggests separate departments of public service, safety and welfare. Fire, police and health would be divisions of public safety. Public welfare should include social welfare, public schools, public library and recreation. Social welfare should dispense all relief funds, and teach mental orderliness in homes with highest grade of trained nurses for teachers.     

DANGEROUS JOBS AND HEAVY ALCOHOL USE IN TWO NATIONAL PROBABILITY SAMPLES

Samples of employed persons within the US were drawn from theNational Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II (n = 8477),and the Quality of Employment Survey (n = 1393) to test thehypothesis that a positive association existed between alcoholuse and job hazards. Heavy total alcohol use, or beer or wineor liquor use separately, were the dependent variables. Thekey independent variables included subjects' evaluations ofhazardous nature of the job and fatality rates within occupationsand industries. Models were estimated with logistic regressionscontrolling for age, gender, race and other covariates. Onlyone robust finding emerged: heavy beer use was found to be positivelyand strongly correlated with the fatality rate within occupations.Additional correlations between job hazards and heavy alcoholuse were weak, generated large P values, and some suggestedan inverse association. The lack of robust findings for theadditional correlations may partially be explained by the associationsbetween job categories on the one hand and choice of beverageon the other. Blue-collar jobs are more hazardous than white-collarjobs, on average. Persons in blue-collar jobs were more likelyto drink beer, while those in white-collar jobs were more likelyto drink wine or liquor (spirits). Separate analyses of beer,wine and liquor appeared essential to explaining correlationsbetween dangerous jobs and heavy alcohol use in these data.Limitations of the study included (1) age of the data (fromthe 1970s), (2) alcohol use and some job hazards were measuredby self-report, and (3) data were from only one country