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Public Health Expenditure by Country, 2007

(% of GDP) Current and capital spending from government (central and local) budgets, external borrowings and grants (including donations from international agencies and…

Public Health Expenditure by Country, 2006

(% of GDP) Current and capital spending from government (central and local) budgets, external borrowings and grants (including donations from international agencies and…

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

(Encyclopedia) Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 1800–1890, English social reformer. For many years an assistant to Jeremy Bentham, Chadwick applied Bentham's utilitarianism to the reform (1834) of the Poor Law…

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

(Encyclopedia) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, charitable organization devoted exclusively to health care issues. It was established in 1936 by Robert Wood Johnson (1893–1968), board chairman of the…

Food and Drug Administration

(Encyclopedia) Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agency of the Public Health Service division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is charged with protecting public health by…

National Institutes of Health

(Encyclopedia) National Institutes of Health (NIH), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service, with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. It was established initially in 1887 as a laboratory in the U.S.…

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(Encyclopedia) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. agency established (1970) in the Dept. of Labor (see Labor, United States Department of) to develop and enforce regulations…

Berdymukhamedov, Kurbanguly

(Encyclopedia) Berdymukhamedov, KurbangulyBerdymukhamedov, Kurbangulykh&oomacr;rbäng&oomacr;lēˈ bârdāˌm&oomacr;kämĕdˈôf [key], 1957–, Turkmen government official, president of…

Pan-American Health Organization

(Encyclopedia) Pan-American Health Organization, inter-American health organization. It was established in 1902 as the International Sanitary Bureau; the present name was adopted in 1958. Its members…