Texas Department of Health Annual Report: 1988 Page: 1
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FOREWORD
We believe that the annual report of an agency the size of TDH should be more
meaningful than a categorical list of our every action. To do so would risk
sacrificing reader interest.
Therefore, in the first section of this report, we have chosen to include only a
few of the items which we feel should be of immediate interest to all Texans.
Some of these subjects, such as the department's continuing struggle to
control the spread of AIDS, already capture public concern. Others, such as the
department's creation of a council to help Alzheimer's disease victims and their
families, have received less publicity. But the common thread uniting each of
the highlights summarized here is that each event was uniquely characteristic of
a fiscal year requiring resourcefulness and creativity in fulfilling the
department's mandate to protect the health of Texans.
The second section of this report focuses more tightly upon an interrelated
group of programs and services assembled to satisfy in Texas one of society's
oldest purposes - the protection of childbearing women and their children. The
department's Bureau of Maternal and Child Health is dedicated to the premise
that preventive and corrective health care of mothers and the children they bear
are vital to ensuring a healthier future for the state as a whole.
The third part of this report recounts one of the department's greatest
triumphs of FY '88.
The department's Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and
Children (WIC) entered the year facing rising costs and growing caseloads. But
within months, with shrewd management and bold innovation, it had found
unique solutions to its problems.
As a result, at the end of the year the program had dramatically reduced the
cost of providing infant formula to its participants- a reduction that allowed the
program to add thousands of eligible clients to the WIC roles, without additional
cost to the taxpayer.
The WIC success story was more than a highlight, more than a summary of
established service. It was a demonstration of governmental adaptability to
meet the changing needs of the public it serves.
On that note, we thank you for your interest in the Texas Department of
Health.
Also, we invite you to contact the appropriate TDH personnel for more detail
on the contents of this annual report, or about other programs not included
here.
Frank Bryant, r., M.D., F.A.A.F.P. Robert Bernstein, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Chairman, Texas Board of Health Commissioner of Health
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