Pertussis Immunization in Pediatric Practice and in Public Health

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Abstract
THE interests of public health and preventive medicine usually follow parallel lines and mutual goals. However, there are cases in which the efforts of the practitioner of preventive medicine are more specific and more emphatic than the procedures of public health. The viewpoint of the latter is to provide adequate service to the entire community, stressing minimum procedures without undue emphasis on one program to the detriment of other programs. Immunization against pertussis is a case in point. This paper is a joint discussion of the pediatric practitioner and two public-health immunologists who are attempting objectively to present both points . . .

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