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C.-E. A. Winslow was a student of William T. Sedgwick, who, as head of the Department of Biology and Public Health at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, became known as "the father of the modern public health movement in America" (z).
“Public Health is,” C.-E. A. Winslow defined in 1920, “the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts.”
“The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.” “Fulfilling society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.”
3 cze 2015 · Simon, wrote Winslow, possessed “the ideal qualities of a preacher of the gospel of health”: a skilled administrator, a teacher who made general concepts of health understandable to the public, a skillful molder of public opinion, and a dogged advocate who got legislation passed.
1 cze 1998 · C.-E. A. Winslow was the leading theoretician of the American public health movement during the entire first half of the twentieth century. An eminent bacteriologist, he subsequently made outstanding scientific contributions to occupational health and to the hygiene of housing.
In 1920, Winslow published a widely-cited definition of public health in Science, describing the field as "the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of ...
“The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.” Winslow CEA. The untilled field of public health. Mod Med 1920;2:183–91.
