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U.S. Public Health Service

The Public Health Service Act of 1944 structured the United States Public Health Service , founded in 1798, as the primary division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare , , which later became the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 1979-1980, . The Office of the Surgeon General was created in 1871. The PHS comprises all Agency Divisions of Health and Human Services and the Commissioned Corps. The Assistant Secretary for Health oversees the PHS and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Wikipedia*

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U.S. Public Health Service has hosted 7 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1955 Vignette. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2019 with an average of 3,379 views per video. Most common tags: Diseases, Health Policy, Medicine.

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