Equity for the public's health
Subtitle: Contra Costa health officer, professor, UC School of Public Health, WHO fieldworker
By: Henrik Blum ; with an introduction by William C. Reeves. Interviews conducted by Caroline Crawford in 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Crawford, Caroline; Reeves, William C. 1916-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1999
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. School of Public Health.; Alta Bates Hospital.; Herrick Memorial Hospital (Berkeley, Calif.); HEALS (Health Maintenance Organization); Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program.; Physicians -- California -- Interviews.; Public health -- California -- Contra Costa County.; Public health -- California -- Berkeley.; Health maintenance organizations -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.; School of Public Health oral histories.
Description: Growing up on a farm in Napa; UC Berkeley, 1931-1937; UC San Francisco Medical School, 1942; military service, 1942-1946, US Public Health Service: venereal disease research projects, faculty position at Johns Hopkins; Rockefeller Research Fellow, Stanford; M.P.H., Harvard, 1948; County Health Officer, Contra Costa County, 1950-1966: the multipurpose healthcare worker, sanitation, mental health, birth control, the Orinda Vision Study; Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, 1966-1984: health planning curriculum, affirmative action, authoring health planning texts, Joint UCB-UCSF Medical Program; Alta Bates and Herrick Hospitals, HEALS HMO, thoughts about managed care; international fieldwork with the World Health Organization in Sri Lanka, Colombia, Chile, 1970-1973; with the Agency for International Development in Nepal, 1977; health care in Europe and Australia, American Samoa and Northern Marianas; Fulbright teaching fellow in Sweden, 1986; teaching health planning in China, 1987; Over 60 and On Lok health programs.