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- Title
Milton I. Roemer Advocate of Social Medicine, International Health, and National Health Insurance.
- Authors
Abel, Emily K.; Fee, Elizabeth; Brown, Theodore M.
- Abstract
A biography of Milton I. Roemer, an advocate of social medicine, international health, and national health insurance is presented. Roemer was born in 1916 in Paterson, New Jersey where his father practiced medicine. At the age of 16, he entered Cornell University in New York as a premedical student. He met Ruth Rosenbaum who soon became Ruth Roemer, his lifelong partner in public health and health activism. Roemer had begun work on an MA in sociology even before entering medical school.
- Subjects
ROEMER, Milton I.; SOCIAL medicine; WORLD health; NATIONAL health insurance; PUBLIC health; HEALTH services administration; CORNELL University
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2008, Vol 98, Issue 9, p1596
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Biography
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2008.134189