Public Health Programs

Public Health Programs groups named initiatives, campaigns and systems run by governments, international bodies or nongovernmental organizations to protect or improve the health of a population, such as vaccination and immunization campaigns, disease surveillance and eradication programs, maternal and child health initiatives, screening and prevention drives, and public health-insurance or health-access programs. Belongs here: any specific named public health program, campaign or initiative, its sponsoring body, its target population and health goal, and its history and measured results. Does not belong here: the institution that runs a program, considered as an organization in its own right, filed under Institutions; a general health practice not tied to a specific named program, filed under Practices; and individual milestones or discoveries in public health history, filed under Milestones.