Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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F OR Dr. Stuart and the Maternal and Child Health team, time, space and people are a continuity. Relativity is a reality. The longi¬ tudinal studies of child growth and develop¬ ment, nearing completion after twenty years, illustrate the importance of research composed in the key of C: consecutiveness, consistency and comprehensiveness. The problems of care for mothers and children (fathers, too) were presented to the students by Drs. Stuart, Kirk¬ wood, Stitt and Miss Rice through the medium of growth studies, the Family Health Clinic at the Lying-in Hospital and the Whittier Street Clinics. Mrs. Burke presented new information concerning the influence of nutrition on preg¬ nant mothers. Translation of this knowledge on maternal and child health to successive classes is encouraging students to play their part in attaining a well born” world. DR. STUART MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he tvill not depart from it. Proverbs Seated (left to right) RICE, STUART, BURKE. STITT. Standing (left to right) KIRKWOOD, WATTENBERG, CYR. BUTLER, SORENSEN, VALADIAN. 2 L

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(Left to right) TRULSON, GEYER, HEGSTED, MAYER, STARE, ANDRUS, VITALE, DAVIS, GERSHOFF. NUTRITION It ' s a very odd thing— As odd as can be — That whatever Miss T eats Turns into Miss T. De La Mare DR. STARE I N the Nutrition Department, considerable emphasis is being given to research on atherosclerosis and its relation to coronary heart disease. Although this is an affliction of well- to-do countries, the staff believe that its pre¬ ventive aspects should be studied in under¬ developed areas. Teams of faculty members and students have been engaged in several research projects related to various aspects of the prob¬ lem. Experimental studies of atherosclerosis in rats and monkeys were directed by Drs. Stare and Hegsted. Dr. Mayer and co-workers have investigated appetite regulation and obesity, while Dr. Geyer and his group have been ex¬ amining the influence of nutrition on tumor growth. In order to assess the relative impact of nationality and environment on fat metabol¬ ism, Dr. Trulson and others are conducting a dietary survey and medical evaluation of second-generation Italian factory workers. 20

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PUBLIC HEALTH WHITTIER STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT (Left to right) DAVIS, NABOISEK, CATH. T HROUGH a myriad of activities the De¬ partment of Public Health Practice reaches into the local community helping to improve the public’s health and enlarging the experi¬ ence of its students. Practical evidence of the Department’s continuing community interest is ROXBURY COMMUNITY COUNCIL (Left to right) REED. HENRY, BLAKENEY, DiCICCO, AMOROSO. the Harvard Field training Unit at the Whittier Street Health Center where, under Dr. Reed’s administrative and demographic eye, students benefit from Well Child teaching clinics, inde¬ pendent case studies and observation of a new local health council. The two research projects in Mental Health, Dr. Simmon’s study of the status of psychiatric rehabilitation of mental patients who have returned to their homes and the Family Guidance Center directed by Dr. Caplan are a medium for teaching and com¬ munity service. The required basic course in Public Health Practice la, lb, in which students are first saturated with Dr. Paul ' s Ecology and later inculcated with the team approach, is followed by the well known 10 c, d. Here, class members are intensively indoctrinated with the theory and practice of Public Health Nursing by Miss Varley, Health Education by Miss Roberts and Social Work by Miss Rice. Dr. Leavell, Dr. Mayes, and many visiting lecturers analyze health problems and public problems from the community point of view, with special em- Colleges and Universities do not exist to impose duties but to reveal choices. A. MacLeish 22