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Geographic Scope

Geographic scope sorts public health programs by how wide an area each one covers, from a single country to the whole world. Wikipedia calls the Global Polio Eradication Initiative "the largest international public health initiative in history," a scope spanning nearly every country on earth. This dimension lets a visitor separate global campaigns from local or regional ones.

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Era of Emergence

1935 1

Geographic Scope

14,000 health houses nationwide

27 countries as of 2018

Bolivia, nationwide

Developing world, global

Early projects in Mozambique, Cambodia, Malawi and Rwanda

Ethiopia (national)

Global, concentrated in high-maternal-mortality countries

India

Indonesia, nationwide

Malawi (national, with rural district implementation)

More than 100 countries, primarily low- and middle-income

Nationwide across Nepal

Nepal, national programme

South Africa, national scale

Tanzania (national)

United States

Zambia (4 pilot districts), implemented jointly with Uganda