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By Judith S. Palfrey. 302 pp. Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1994. $55. ISBN 0-275-94696-7.

Judith Palfrey has written a well-organized, readable book about children's health as it is affected by forces in the community. Physicians, social workers, and community health workers, as well as politicians and others who shape public policy, would benefit from reading it.

Palfrey leads the reader to conclude that we have entered a new era in child health. She divides the 20th century into the initial classic period, when physiologic investigation and technological innovation led to remarkable improvements in nutrition, the treatment of infectious diseases, and approaches to prematurity, and the second period, characterized by the "new morbidity," with attention . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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