台灣地區公共衛生之建立：其沿革、演變及展望(1945-1980)

Development & Trend of Taiwan Public Health Services in Taiwan, R. O. C.

顏春輝(C. H. Yen)

《中華民國公共衛生學會雜誌》 1期 (1982/12) Pp. 58-63

https://doi.org/10.6288/JNPHARC1982-01-01-08

摘要

關於台灣地區公共衛生事業建立之起源及其演變情況，作者較早雖有幾篇之報告陸續發表於中外醫學文刊(1，2，3，4，5)，但尚缺一較完整性的報導，是故際於中華民國公共衛生學會發行創刊號時，特以實地體驗事蹟來記述台灣地區自光復後三卡六年來，公共衛生設施樹立之沿革、演變及檢討其未來發展方向。

並列摘要

A comprehensieve system of Public health Service was developed in Taiwan area, R.O. C. only after 1947 since repossession by the Chinese Government. During the past 30 years, there were outstanding achievements in the care of healths of the people which are illustrated by the deduction of crude death rate of 18.14 per 1000 in 1947 to 4.76 in 1977, and the life expectancies at birth increased from 53.1 years for males & 57.3 for females in 1951 to 67.6 and 73.1 for male & females respectively. During the decades also have been a definite change in leading causes of death as well as health problems.
Thus:
(1)Acute infection diseases such as Plague, Malaria, Cholera, Smallpox & Rabies have been eradicated.
(2)Other infection dieases such as Enteric fevers, Poliomyelitis, Diptheris, Tubercubsis, Jap. Encephalitis have been greatly reduced.
(3)There have been increased some outstanding causes of deaths namely: Cerebrovascular diease, Cancer & Accidents are the top three.
Since 1977, also Hepatitis B, Cirrhosis of the liver, Hepatoma are becoming more important public health. In addition, the problems of pollution, Industrial hazards & Occupational health need to be attended to in the future.