PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND PRIVATE HEALTH AGENCIES

This author takes issue with Dr. Hill on the functions of health officers. He believes that they should undertake all kinds of public health work, that responsibility divided with private agencies will hurt the health officer's work, that public health education is necessary and that this must be conducted by the health officer if he is to fill adequately his sphere. Private agencies should bend their efforts to support the health officer.     

COORDINATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES IN A STATE PROGRAM OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING

Alabama has a State Program for Public Health Nursing. This service, stimulated by the war, has developed enormously everywhere. Most movements in this country are by independent agencies. Co?rdination is the urgent need. Miss Marriner outlines what Alabama is doing towards standardization and co-?peration.     

COORDINATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES IN A STATE PROGRAM OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING

Alabama has a State Program for Public Health Nursing. This service, stimulated by the war, has developed enormously everywhere. Most movements in this country are by independent agencies. Coördination is the urgent need. Miss Marriner outlines what Alabama is doing towards standardization and co-öperation.     

FUTURE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES

Since the cessation of hostilities in Europe health officers have been asking "What is the Red Cross going to do in Public Health?" Dr. Farrand here assures the public health profession that the Red Cross proposes to be a co?perative agency and not unless circumstances seem to demand it, an operative one.     

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE IN GERMANY: THE IGNORED RISK SELECTION PROBLEM

We investigate risk selection between public and private health insurance in Germany. With risk‐rated premiums in the private system and community‐rated premiums in the public system, advantageous selection in favor of private insurers is expected. Using 2000 to 2007 data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we find such selection. While private insurers are unable to select the healthy upon enrollment, they profit from an increase in the probability to switch from private to public health insurance of those individuals who have experienced a negative health shock. To avoid distorted competition between the two branches of health care financing, risk‐adjusted transfers from private to public insurers should be instituted. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MENTAL HYGIENE AND DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH

Everybody seems to realize the importance of mental hygiene, yet no one seems to know just how to begin. Dr. Hincks strikes the key-note of the situation. He says that the experimental stage is passed. It needs the backing of public opinion and the sound financial footing of support from public health funds.     

MENTAL HYGIENE AND DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH

Everybody seems to realize the importance of mental hygiene, yet no one seems to know just how to begin. Dr. Hincks strikes the key-note of the situation. He says that the experimental stage is passed. It needs the backing of public opinion and the sound financial footing of support from public health funds.