<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.hhs.gov/ash </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> "Public Health Service March" </Th> </Tr> <P> The United States Public Health Service (PHS) is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health . It contains eight out of the department's eleven operating divisions . The Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) oversees the PHS . The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) is the federal uniformed service of the PHS, and is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States . </P> <P> Its origins can be traced to the establishment of 1798 of a system of marine hospitals . In 1870 these were consolidated into the Marine Hospital Service, and the position of Surgeon General was established . In 1889, the PHSCC was established . As the system's scope grew, it renamed the Public Health Service in 1912 . The Public Health Service Act of 1944 consolidated and revised previous laws and is the current legal basis for the PHS . It became the primary division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, established in 1953, which later became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1979 . </P>

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