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 ones terminal or
debilitating illness. Included in the
documentation are records of the White Houses 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