Medical care in the USSR : Report of the U.S. Delegation on Health Care Services and Planning ... May 16-June 3, 1970 / Jesse L. Steinfeld [and others].

  • United States. Delegation on Health Care Services and Planning.
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[1972]
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Credit: Medical care in the USSR : Report of the U.S. Delegation on Health Care Services and Planning ... May 16-June 3, 1970 / Jesse L. Steinfeld [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD The John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, initiated in the summer of 1970 a project for the study of medicine and public health in the Soviet Union. The purpose of this project was to advance U.S. knowledge of medicine practiced in the USSR, to publish selected documents covering all phases of Soviet medicine and health and to improve cooperation between clinicians, health scientists and health administrators in the U.S. and USSR. Subsequently this effort was expanded to include studies of a small number of other countries, the systems of which contained certain unique or interesting features, and now has been incorporated into a Geographic Health Studies Program. In establishing such a program it was believed that an understand- ing of such aspects of other countries’ health systems will significantly assist the leaders of the American health system to place in proper perspective our own policies, pro- cedures, and interests. This monograph represents the combined observations of individual-members of the delegation and was coordinated by Dr. Patrick B. Storey. The group visited the Soviet Union in 1970 under sponsorship of the U.S.-Soviet Cultural and Scientific Exchange Program. It was not intended to be a comprehensive treatise on Soviet medical care nor an in-depth study of any particular aspect. However, the delegation was able to obtain an overall view of the health system and to make site visits to a number of Soviet health institutions. These, recorded with astute observation and the personal flavor of the author and delegation, give the monograph a feeling of reality that is otherwise so often missing from usual studies. For this reason it was felt that the monograph should have a wide audience. It gives the reader a wealth of infor- mation as well as a sense of participation. Information needs to be combined with empathy to create understanding and in pursuit of this objective we believe this publi- cation fits well the Soviet Health Studies Project Geographic Health Studies Program. Inquiries concerning the Soviet Health Studies Project should be addressed to Dr. Joseph R. Quinn, Geographic Health Studies Program, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014. Mmo D. Leavitt, Jr., M.D. Director Fogarty International Center