Medicine and the United States Government - Presentation Transcript
Anna Huber LI 383 Government Docs Emporia State University Medicine and the United States Government
Historical Context
1798 Passage of an act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. Established a federal network of hospitals for the care of merchant seamen.
1871 Appointment of the first Supervising Surgeon (later called Surgeon General) for the Marine Hospital Service.
1891 Passage of immigration legislation, assigning to the Marine Hospital Service the responsibility for medical examination of arriving immigrants.
1902 Conversion of Marine Hospital Service into the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, recognizing its activities in the field of public health. In 1912 the name was shortened to the Public Health Service.
Department Health, Education, and Welfare
The Cabinet-level Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1953) was created by President Eisenhower.
The Department of Education Organization Act (1979) created a separate Department of Education.
HEW became the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1980.
US Department of Health and Human Services
Lead by the Office of the Secretary
Heads over 300 programs
Responsible for 25% of all government spending
“ [T]he United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.”
Divisions of US Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Indian Health Services (IHS)
Human Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
The Laboratory of Hygiene
Originated in 1887 as a one room laboratory at the Marine Hospital Service in Staten Island, New York.
Became the National Institutes of Health in 1930
National Institutes of Health
Now located in Bethesda, Maryland with over 18,000 employees
27 Institutes and Centers
Focus “on current and emerging health needs and promising areas of science”
Mission Statement
“ Science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.”
Budget
28 Million annually
80% through competitive research grants
10% supports internal research
Office of Extramural Research allocates grant monies
NIH Roadmap
Divisions of the National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute (1937)
National Eye Institute (1968)
National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute (1948)
National Human Genome Research Institute (1989)
National Institute on Aging (1974)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1970)
National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1948)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (1986)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (2000)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1962)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (1988)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (1948)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (1948)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (2000)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1962)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (1988)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (1948)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (1948)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (1973)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (1969)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (1962)
National Institute of Mental Health 1949
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 1950
National Institute of Nursing Research 1986
National Library of Medicine 1956
Center for Information Technology 1964
Center for Scientific Review 1946
John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences 1968
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 1999
National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities 1993
National Center for research resources 1962
NIH Clinical Center 1953
National Library of Medicine
Worlds largest medical library
Scope covers all areas of biomedicine and healthcare
9 Million + items in the collection including historic archives
“ Explores the uses of computer and communication technologies to improve the organization and use of biomedical information”
John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)
"What would induce a man to spend years of labor in getting together and printing tens of thousands of titles of articles concerning the treatment of fevers, consumption, wounds, and abscesses. Among the chief motives, no doubt, is the desire to be of public service, a feeling very strong in all Americans, except perhaps politicians."
History of NLM
Billings organized the Library of the Surgeon Generals Office (1865-95)
Collection grew from 1,800 volumes in 1836 to 50,000 in 1874
Index Medicus started as handwritten cards, became printed lists (1879-2004)
Terms began to be simultaneously electronically indexed in 1964 and retrieved through MEDLARS system
Databanks and Databases
MEDLARS ran on a Honeywell mainframe by GE
1971 Began online searching
1992 MEDLARS continued to be active until Medline searching became available on the internet.
1997 Access to Medline became free (Gore).
1997 Medline became accessible through the free PubMed interface, part of the Entrez family of databases.
NCBI Databases and Electronic Resources
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Supports research and other libraries through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Docline
Lonesome Doc
NLM Classification
MeSH
National Repository
“ The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided , That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.”
Public Access Policy , Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161
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