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Branch links a health practice to the field of medicine it grew out of. Wikipedia describes Ignaz Semmelweis as "an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures" whose hand washing requirement began inside obstetrics, the branch where childbed fever was killing new mothers. This dimension groups practices that belong to the same branch of health work.

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Era of Emergence
1982 1
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1. Child survival revolution (Wikipedia)
Child survival revolution, lead section
Quote, Child survival revolution, lead section
The child survival revolution is started by James P. Grant at UNICEF with the publication of the 1982-1983 The State of the World's Children report.
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