• The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program was enacted as the child health component of Medicaid. Children under 21 years enrolled in Medicaid are entitled to EPSDT benefits, and states must cover a “broad array of preventive and treatment services.”
• By 1967, all states had laws requiring that physicians report child abuse.
• Field trials of experimental respiratory syncytial virus vaccines were performed but stalled. Currently, 65 RSV vaccines are being studied, and 13 are in phase III trials.
The Kempe Foundation
Dr. C. Henry Kempe was a pediatrician who was the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child abuse; he and colleagues published a seminal paper on the subject in 1962, and by 1967 all states had child abuse reporting laws.
• The World Health Association declared a war on smallpox with a worldwide vaccination campaign. Twelve years later the disease was eradicated.
• The Public Health Service issued the second Surgeon General’s report on the health consequences of smoking.
• The first heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard.