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Isidore Sydney Falk

Isidore Sydney Falk (1899–1984) was a prominent United States public health expert and advocate for national health care policies. He had a long career spanning over 60 years in health care and was involved in efforts to enact the Social Security system. Falk worked as a bacteriologist and served as a professor of public health at Yale University. He was known for his activism on behalf of national health insurance and had a multifaceted career as a researcher, government administrator, and consultant.

Career

Born in Brooklyn, New York, September 30. 1899. Son of Sampson and Rose Falk. Graduated deal. 1920.. Married Ruth Hill in March. 1920 with three children. Worked at Yale and the University of Chicago as a microbiologist. Professor 1929, and director of surveys for Chicago Department of Health,. 1925 to 1927. He served as chief researcher for the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care in the late 1920s. He worked on the design of the Social Security Act as part of the Council on Economic Security in 1934. He held a position with the Social Security Board from the late 1930s, becoming director of the. division of research and statistics. of the Social Security Administration. He served as a professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine. He was executive director of the Community Health Care Center Plan from 1970 to 1979.[1][2][3]

Contributions to Public Health

Falk was instrumental in shaping health care policy and research in the United States.[4] He collaborated with other notable figures such as Edgar Sydenstricker and Michael M. Davis on various health care initiatives. He conducted several large-scale morbidity studies and health care surveys.[5] In the New Deal era 1930s he was an advocate for comprehensive, government-sponsored health insurance.[6] The American Medical Association led the opposition and defeated his proposals.[7] He called for the restructuring of health care delivery through group practice prepayment plans (an early versions of health maintenance organizations).[8][9]

After 1945 Falk conducted public health and medical care surveys for international organizations, including the World Bank, in various countries.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Isidore Sydney Falk papers" Yale University Library, 2024. online
  2. ^ Joan Cook, "Dr. Isidore S. Falk, Professor Of Public Health for Yale U." New York Times Oct. 10 1984; obituary.
  3. ^ Who's Who in America 1946–1947 (1946) p. 730.
  4. ^ Joan Cook, "Dr. Isidore S. Falk, Professor Of Public Health for Yale U." New York Times Oct. 10 1984; obituary.
  5. ^ George Weisz, "Epidemiology and health care reform: The National Health Survey of 1935-1936." American Journal of Public Health 101.3 (2011): 438-447.
  6. ^ I.S. Falk, Security against sickness; a study of health insurance (1936) online reprint version
  7. ^ Jaap Kooijman, "Soon or later on: Franklin D. Roosevelt and national health insurance, 1933-1945." Presidential Studies Quarterly 29.2 (1999): 336-350.
  8. ^ Isidore Sydney Falk, "Planning a national health program: work of the Committee on the costs of medical care." National Conference of Social Work. Proceedings, 1939 , Vol. 1939, p111-118.
  9. ^ Isidore Sydney Falk, "Unmet health needs." American Journal of Public Health (Dec 1944), Vol. 34, p1223-1230.
  10. ^ I.S. Falk, Report on the social insurance program in Haiti (Federal Security Agency, 1951) online

Further reading

  • Cook, Joan. "Dr. Isidore S. Falk, Professor Of Public Health for Yale U." New York Times Oct. 10 1984; obituary.
  • Falk, Isidore Sydney. "Planning a national health program: work of the Committee on the costs of medical care." National Conference of Social Work. Proceedings, 1939 , Vol. 1939, pp. 111–118.
  • "Isidore Sydney Falk" Social Security History (2024) online
  • "Isidore Sydney Falk papers" Yale University Archives. online
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