Pediatric care under the North Carolina plan.

Abstract

In the winter and spring months of 1944 a number of conversations which took place among the members of the American Academy of Pediatrics culminated in the decision that postwar planning for initiating or extending child health programs on a national or local basis could be greatly facilitated by a survey of the existing health services and facilities for children throughout the United States. Such a proposal was placed before the academy at its national meeting in St. Louis in November 1944 and was unanimously adopted. Franklin P. Gengenbach, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, appointed a committee of nine which subsequently selected Warren R. Sisson of Boston as its chairman. John P. Hubbard, also of Boston and then terminating his period of war service, was chosen as the executive director. Both the United States Children's Bureau and the United States Public Health Service readily accepted the academy's request