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: Ignaz Semmelweis
WikipediaIgnaz Semmelweis, Vienna General Hospital sectionQuote, Ignaz Semmelweis, Vienna General Hospital section
In 1847, he proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had thrice the mortality of midwives' wards.
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