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Raise Health Standards: Research and development expenditures increased at a much more rapid rate than ha gross national product (GNP), the total vali the nation's production of marketable goods services — from 1.4 percent of the GNP in to about 2.8 percent in 1961. This is foi most part probably the result of defense n the launching of the Soviet Sputniks, anc desire to raise health standards and cure di; as well as the realization by the more progre industries that R & D is the key to growtl prosperity.
The official agencies, like the voluntary groups, provide research and educational services. In addition, some official agencies set standards that assist in protecting the health of the public and the consumers of health products and services. Each state has a tax-supported official agency known as the state health department. These departments are responsible for establishing and enforcing health laws for their states.
In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one 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 general of the Public Health Service.
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