A conference to discuss the effects of the war, persecution, famine and epidemics on the health of the Jewish population in European countries will be held this Fall in America, it was announced today by the American Committee of the OSE, Jewish Health Society. The conference will be attended by leading Jewish physicians interested in studying the health problems facing European Jews after the war.
The question of the public health needs of the Jewish population in Latin American countries and the initiation of systematic public health work there may also be included on the agenda of the conference, it was indicated. Dr. A. Rongy, chairman of the American OSE executive committee, has been authorized to set up a special Conference Committee of eminent physicians who, jointly with the executive committee of the OSE, will undertake the organization of the conference which is to discuss the following reports:
1. War, persecution, starvation, epidemics and their disastrous effects on the health of the Jewish population of the European countries.
2. The ghetto as a new phenomenon in Jewish life and its effects on the psycho-neurotic health of the Jewish population.
3. Lessons of the First World War and the aims of public health work in the post-war world.
4. Public health work among Jews in various European countries in the period between two wars.
5. Epidemiologic problems in the post-war period; Health problems of children and adolescents; New tasks in connection with emigration and colonization problems.
6. The consequences of poor nutrition and the means of improving health through nutrition.
7. The fate of the Jewish physicians in Europe — their economic uprooting and dispersion.
8. The role of American Jewry in medical aid to the Jewish population of Europe and its tremendous future tasks.
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