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Equity for the public's health : oral history transcript : Contra Costa health officer, professor, UC School of Public Health,
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Equity for the public's health : oral history transcript: Contra Costa health officer, professor, UC School of Public Health, WHO fieldworker / 1999University of California history series
School of Public Health oral histories
Creator/Contributor:
Blum, Henrik L., creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Crawford, Caroline, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Reeves, William C. (William Carlisle), 1916-2004Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Growing up on a farm in Napa; UC Berkeley, 1931-1937; UC San Francisco Medical School, 1942; military service, 1942-1946,
US Public Health Service: venereal disease research projects, faculty position at Johns Hopkins; Rockefeller Research Fellow,
Stanford; M.P.H., Harvard, 1948; County Health Officer, Contra Costa County, 1950-1966: the multipurpose healthcare worker,
sanitation, mental health, birth control, the Orinda Vision Study; Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, 1966-1984:
health planning curriculum, affirmative action, authoring health planning texts, Joint UCB-UCSF Medical Program; Alta Bates
and Herrick Hospitals, HEALS HMO, thoughts about managed care; international fieldwork with the World Health Organization
in Sri Lanka, Colombia, Chile, 1970-1973; with the Agency for International Development in Nepal, 1977; health care in Europe
and Australia, American Samoa and Northern Marianas; Fulbright teaching fellow in Sweden, 1986; teaching health planning in
China, 1987; Over 60 and On Lok health programs.
Date:
1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPhysicians -- California -- Interviews
Public health -- California -- Contra Costa County
Public health -- California -- Berkeley
Health maintenance organizations -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Médecins -- Californie -- Entretiens
Santé publique -- Californie -- Contra Costa
Santé publique -- Californie -- Berkeley
Assurance-maladie à prépaiement -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Public health
Physicians
Health maintenance organizations
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
California -- Contra Costa County
California -- Berkeley
California
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Public Health.
Alta Bates Hospital.
Herrick Memorial Hospital (Berkeley, Calif.)
HEALS (Health Maintenance Organization)
Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program.
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Public Health
Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program.
Alta Bates Hospital.
Note:
Henrik Blum ; with an introduction by William C. Reeves. Interviews conducted by Caroline Crawford in 1997. Regional Oral
History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the University history series, School of Public Health oral histories.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3001 C:1-18.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xii, 425 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
18 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.