HEALTH (HE)

 

A primary category containing information pertaining to consultative assistance for the prevention and control of disease; hospital operation; conducting research in biology and medicine (NIH program); blood donations, enforcing interstate quarantine, regulations and conducting medical and hospital care programs; pollution and controls; vivisection.

 

Subject categories and sub-categories fully available for research are bolded. Closed categories and sub-categories have a simple phrase describing their contents.

 

DESCRIPTION OF SECONDARY FILE CODES

 

File Code                               Description

 

HE                                           Health

 

HE001                                    Diseases – Disabilities

 

HE001-01                              Alcoholism

 

HE001-02                              Cancer

 

HE001-03                              Heart Disease

 

HE001-04                              Mental Disorders

 

HE001-05                              Physically Handicapped

 

HE002                                    Doctors – Dentists – Nurses

 

HE003                                    Food – Nutrition

 

HE004                                    Health, Services

 

HE004-01                              Chronic Diseases – Health of Aged

 

HE004-02                              Environmental – Occupational Health

 

HE005                                    Hospitals-Medicare (Begin-227599)

Correspondence, memoranda, reports and other background information mostly on the costs of obtaining health care for catastrophic illness.  The bulk of this portion of HE005 consists of correspondence between individuals and the Reagan administration about such issues as rising costs of health care for the elderly, lack of Medicare coverage for organ transplants, and financial burdens on families who are faced with a loved one’s terminal or debilitating illness.  Included in the documentation are records of the White House’s telephone responses to many of the letters.


HE006                                    Medicines – Drugs – Serums

 

HE006-01                              Narcotics

 

HE007                                    Pollution Control – Sanitary Services

 

HE007-01                              Air Pollution

 

HE007-02                              Sewage Systems

 

HE007-03                              Water Pollution – Water Purification

 

HE008                                    Radiological Health