In the name of public health- Nazi racial hygiene
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Physicians and medically trained academics, many of whom were proponents of 'racial hygiene', or eugenics, legitimized and helped to implement Nazi policies aiming to 'cleanse' German society of people viewed as biologic threats to the nation's health. Eugenics proposals, such as the sterilization of mentally retarded and ill persons, failed to win wide support, before 1933, but the Nazi 'revolution', beginning that year with Adolf Hitler's assumption of power, upset the status quo.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2004
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Trends in prevalence and outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
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A definition of secular trends in the prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is studied among patients at a single institution over a 15-year period. It is concluded that heart failure is a growing public health problem shown by an increase in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction over a 15-year period, whereas the rate of death remained the same.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2006
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Gradient of disability across the socioeconomic spectrum in the United States
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The socioeconomic gradient in functional limitation among older Americans is examined. The results have shown that functional limitation in Americans between the ages 55 and 84 years is inversely related to social class across the full spectrum of the socio-economic gradient.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2006
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