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MIDCENTURY WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH

1950; American Medical Association; Volume: 143; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1950.02910420013004

2376-8118

HENRY F. HELMHOLZ,

Child and Adolescent Health

Since the turn of the century the United States has concerned itself periodically with the preservation of its greatest asset, the children of the nation. The Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth is the fifth of a series. The first was held in 1909 on call of President Theodore Roosevelt in particular to study the dependent child. It resulted in fifteen recommendations, the most important of which was the establishment of a Children's Bureau, which occurred in 1912. The second White House Conference, called by President Wilson in 1919, set standards for children entering employment and for protection of health of mother and child and of those in need of special care. The third conference, called by President Hoover in 1930, was concerned with the total aspects of all children. Twelve hundred experts worked for sixteen months on the needs of children, which were considered under four heads: