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- Title
Adolf Meyer and Mental Hygiene: An Ideal for Public Health.
- Authors
Dreyer, Barbara A.
- Abstract
The article discusses on the contributions of Adolf Meyer to the idea of mental hygiene as ideal for public health in the U.S. Meyer's endeavors had helped to lay the foundations of the movement and its evolvement into national recognition. In addition, Meyer compared the growth of the idea of mental hygiene in children with the development of psychiatry. He also made biology the assimilator of both viewpoints pf psychiatry and pediatrics by pointing out that it emphasized all the facts of child life in a natural setting.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MENTAL health; CHILD psychiatry; CHILD psychology; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL psychiatry; CHILDREN'S health; PEDIATRICS; MEYER, Adolf, 1866-1950
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1976, Vol 66, Issue 10, p998
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.66.10.998