Public health, private concern: The organizational development of public health in the Netherlands at the beginning of the twentieth century

This article outlines an important period in the development of public health in the Netherlands. It starts with the development of a more active government policy, in the middle of the century and ends with the political decision to develop a public health system, based on private initiatives and funded by the central government and local authorities. In 1933 this decision was made implicitly. In that year a Health Services Bill was rejected, in which the suggestion was made that municipal health services should be established. To understand this development, the role of both the central gove... Mehr ...