Excerpta Medica. Public Health, Social Medicine and Hygiene (including Industrial and Occupational Medicine and Rehabilitation) Section XVII

摘要

.... With this issue, Section IV-Medical Microbiology and Hygiene-becomes two new sections, devoted respectively to Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Serology (Section IV) and Public Health, Social Medicine and Hygiene (Section XVII)." Articles in bacteriology, virology, immunology, antibiotics and methods of diagnosis involving the use of biological preparations will be abstracted regularly in Section IV. Changes and developments in the whole field of hygiene and public health will be reflected in the coverage of this new section-the extension of BCG vaccination to millions of people, the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine, the gradual elimination of syphilis and gonorrhoea by widespread use of penicillin, new preventive and remedial preparations for malaria, maternal, infant and child welfare, school and industrial hygiene, occupational diseases, total rehabilitation, and gerontology.