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United States Public Health Service
The
Public Health Service Act
of 1944 structured the
United States Public Health Service
(
PHS
), founded in 1798, as the primary division of the
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
(HEW), (which was established in 1953), which later became the
United States Department of Health and Human Services
in 1979-1980, (when the Education agencies were separated into their own
U.S. Department of Education
). The Office of the
Surgeon General
was created in 1871. The PHS comprises all Agency Divisions of Health and Human Services and the Commissioned Corps. The
Assistant Secretary for Health
(ASH) oversees the PHS and the
United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
.
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