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- catalog abstract "Consists of records created by David D. Rutstein (1909-1986) during the course of his career as Chief of the Cardiac Bureau of the New York State Department of Health, Albany (1940-1942), Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health (1943-1946), and Professor of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston (1947-1969). The collection also includes records of Rutstein's activities as a researcher, academic, medical school administrator, and contributing member of national and international professional health care boards and foundations. Collection also includes records of Rutstein's activities as a researcher, academic, medical school administrator, and contributing member of national and international professional health care boards and foundations. Includes correspondence files for programs Rutstein initiated within the Department of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as his work on curriculum development; teaching activities; and plans for a program in community health care at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. Other professional activitie include: involvement in medical societies, especially the American and Massachusetts Heart Associations and American Council on Rheumatic Fever; consulting and advisory work for a variety of international and national medical bodies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Public Health Service, and service as Chairman of the United States-United Kingdom Cooperative Rheumatic Fever Study; research on pneumonia, rheumatic fever, heart and blood vessel diseases, and the dissemination of results to scientists and to the general public through a weekly television program ("The Facts of Medicine") and publications; and lobbying efforts.".
- catalog contributor b755017.
- catalog date "1938".
- catalog description "Consists of records created by David D. Rutstein (1909-1986) during the course of his career as Chief of the Cardiac Bureau of the New York State Department of Health, Albany (1940-1942), Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health (1943-1946), and Professor of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston (1947-1969). The collection also includes records of Rutstein's activities as a researcher, academic, medical school administrator, and contributing member of national and international professional health care boards and foundations. Collection also includes records of Rutstein's activities as a researcher, academic, medical school administrator, and contributing member of national and international professional health care boards and foundations. Includes correspondence files for programs Rutstein initiated within the Department of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as his work on curriculum development; teaching activities; and plans for a program in community health care at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. Other professional activitie include: involvement in medical societies, especially the American and Massachusetts Heart Associations and American Council on Rheumatic Fever; consulting and advisory work for a variety of international and national medical bodies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Public Health Service, and service as Chairman of the United States-United Kingdom Cooperative Rheumatic Fever Study; research on pneumonia, rheumatic fever, heart and blood vessel diseases, and the dissemination of results to scientists and to the general public through a weekly television program ("The Facts of Medicine") and publications; and lobbying efforts.".
- catalog description "David Davis Rutstein (1909-1986), S.B., 1930, Harvard College; M.D., 1934, Harvard Medical School, joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1947 as Professor of Preventive Medicine and was head of the Department of Preventive Medicine until 1969. In 1966, he was appointed the Ridley Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine, and held that position until his retirement in 1975. Rutstein was also the Deputy Commissioner of Public Health for the New York City Department of Health from 1943 to 1946, and was a consultant in preventive medicine for many hospitals in New York and Massachusetts from the 1940s to the 1970s. Rustein played a national role in the organization of medical care, the integration of preventive medicine into the care of individual patients, and the measurement of medical outcomes. In the 1960s he directed a study on forming health maintenance programs, lobbied for a change in state laws regarding birth control for the poor, and advocated the use of nurse midwives for delivery. Some of his later studies with the United States Veteran's Administration were on the genetic basis of alcoholism and on standards of health care. In 1955, Rutstein began a forty-episode television series on WGBH-TV (Boston) called, "The Facts of Medicine." This was one of the first uses of television to inform the public about local and national health concerns and current research.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available (721.9 kb) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00137".
- catalog extent "98.25 98 1".
- catalog issued "1938".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Alcoholism Prevention and control.".
- catalog subject "Alcoholism.".
- catalog subject "American Council on Rheumatic Fever.".
- catalog subject "American Heart Association.".
- catalog subject "Birth control Law and legislation.".
- catalog subject "Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Community health services.".
- catalog subject "Education, Medical.".
- catalog subject "Harvard Medical School. Department of Preventive Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Harvard School of Public Health.".
- catalog subject "Health Services Research.".
- catalog subject "Heart Diseases Research.".
- catalog subject "Hospitals Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "Medical Care Research United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical laws and legislation Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Study and teaching.".
- catalog subject "National Academy of Engineering. Committee on the Interplay of Engineering with Biology and Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Occupational Health.".
- catalog subject "Occupational diseases.".
- catalog subject "Pneumonia Research.".
- catalog subject "Preventive Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Rheumatic fever Research.".
- catalog subject "Rutstein, David.".
- catalog subject "Sentinel Health Event.".
- catalog subject "Sentinel Health Surveillance.".
- catalog subject "United States. Public Health Service.".
- catalog subject "United States. Veteran's Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery.".
- catalog subject "World Health Organization.".
- catalog title "David D. Rutstein papers, 1916-1989 (inclusive), 1938-1980 (bulk).".
- catalog type "Photographs aat".
- catalog type "collection".