PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION

It is the purpose of this paper to indicate briefly some of the requirements of an efficient public health officer, and to point out the work that is being done for the instruction of the public, and the opportunities for the professional training of a public health administrator and the places where they may be found. To educate the average citizen or the special officer in the business of public health is not so easy as it sounds, for it includes the difficult task of educating the educated as well as the ignorant; it demands great unselfishness of the practicing physician; it imposes radical readjustment on our educational system, and it robs the average citizen of many dear beliefs, while urging on him new and unaccustomed actions. Among physicians it is no longer disputed that work in public health cannot be relegated to a political sideline. The day has passed