Health Guidance Quotes
This is one of the first formal efforts to provide health care to the poor. It is also the first formal recognition that the access to care is inherently different for the poor and special devices, systems and cures as well as publications may be needed.
This is a remarkable insight into public health. By the late 20th century, most preventable death in America is a function of individual habits and choices: diet, dangerous driving, smoking, drinking and the like. Few physicians of Blackwell’s day realized this was coming.