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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1. Wikipedia: Harm reduction
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One of the first harm reduction models was called the 'Mersey Harm Reduction Model' in 1980s Liverpool, and the success of utilizing outreach workers, distribution of education, and providing clean equipment to drug users was shown in the fact that an HIV epidemic did not happen in Mersey.
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