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- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © by the American Public Health Association
- ISSN
- 0090-0036
- eISSN
- 1541-0048
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Abstract
Your leadership in planning for, and doing something about, health resources is recognized by those of us from the outside who also have a small share in the field of your greater job. We in industry do have a stake and a participating share in what you are doing. My minister recently said that a principal factor in Christianity is creativity. No one can view the creative leadership your members are busy exerting every day without realizing that your work is for the greater good of all citizens-no matter their age, their interests, or their productivity. Through unselfish devotion to creative work and sound application of principles and practices you have furthered health beyond the dreams of many who lacked the vision you have. This improvement has had a real meaning to industry. It means first better employees who are able to devote fuller energies to the job. It means lower costs because of fewer and shorter absences due to illness and injury. It means that employees can devote more of their wages to other areas of living. It means even that some new industries have been developed that have given new jobs to thousands-just as advances in
Journal
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Apr 1, 1957