John H. Landis (1860-1918): Devoted Health Officer of Cincinnati.

• Autores: Elizabeth Fee
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 105, Nº. 8, 2015, págs. 48-48
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the work of John H. Landis, who was elected the public health officer of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1910. Topics include his 1917 initiation of the Social Unit Organization, a social experiment in which communities were organized in a democratic fashion and encouraged to meet their own needs, criticism of the Social Unit Organization from Cincinnati Mayor John Galvin, and Landis' active participation in several associations such as the American Medical Association.