Study Data from University of Texas at Arlington Provide New Insights into Public Health (Linking Public Health and Individual Medicine: The Health Policy…

Study Data from University of Texas Provide New Insights into Public Health (Linking Public Health and Individual Medicine: The Health Policy Approach of Surgeon General Thomas Parran)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators publish new report on Public Health. According to news reporting from Arlington, Texas, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, "Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. was once viewed as a path-breaking leader, but his legacy is now highly contested. Scholars of national health insurance have viewed Parran as an impediment to government-backed insurance, and revelations about his role in the Tuskegee Study and in the Public Health Service's experiments in Guatemala have cast a shadow over his career."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Texas, "Surgeon General from 1936 to 1948, Parran led the Public Health Service during the development of key features of the modern American health system and was involved in critical debates over the role of the national government in health. I argue that Parran is best understood not as an opponent of insurance but as the proponent of an approach to health policy that sought to link public health and individual medicine."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "A pragmatic bureaucrat, Parran believed that effective policymaking required compromise with the American Medical Association."

For more information on this research see: Linking Public Health and Individual Medicine: The Health Policy Approach of Surgeon General Thomas Parran. American Journal of Public Health, 2017;107(4):509-516. American Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Amer Public Health Assoc Inc, 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710, USA (see also Public Health).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting D. Sledge, Univ Texas Arlington, Dept. of Polit Sci, Arlington, TX 76019, United States.

Keywords for this news article include: Arlington, Texas, United States, North and Central America, Health Policy, Public Health, Legislation, University of Texas.

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