The Need for Sound Program Planning
Joseph W. Mountin · Public Health Reports (1896-1970) · 1952
The Spirit of the Symposium . ..""The problem-of public health are relatively simple as compared with many other problems of international cooperation, but the sUcCesses 80 far attained may be encouraging to agenCies dealing with more difcult areas."The spirit of the symposiUm on 'Meeting World Health Problem,s' was hopeful and con- fident.The view was expressed, for example, that in the year A. D. 2000, historians would look back on our mid-century as memorable for two of the Mno8t significant milestones in the history of the human race: the initiation in Korea of the ft#r8t exercise of world, police power for the checking of armed aggre8sion, and the development in the technical ami8tance and Point IV programs8 of a global re8pon8i- bility for promoting by concerted international action the physioal and emotional and 80cil well-being of all the people8 of the earth.