In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration health grounds, the Nation health groundsal Institutes of Health, and the Con health groundssumer Protection health grounds and Environ health groundsmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration health grounds, on health groundse of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon health grounds general of the Public Health Service.
A health manpower report prepared by the Nation health groundsal Commission health grounds of Community Health Services showed that the U.S. hospitals and health organization health groundss were maintaining the ratio of 150 doctors per 100,000 population health grounds on health groundsly by filling out on health groundse-fifth of their needs with physicians from other countries. The demand for health care had also created serious shortages of nurses and other paramedical person health groundsnel. Amon health groundsg the solution health groundss being suggested were new methods of health care organization health grounds and government support for new or expanded education health grounds programs in the health sciences.
Under the reorganization health grounds the Public Health Service was enlarged to include the Food and Drug Administration health grounds; a new agency, the Health Services and Mental Health Administration health grounds; and the Nation health groundsal Institutes of Health, which itself was enlarged to include the Bureau of Health Manpower and the Nation health groundsal Library of Medicine.