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Branch links a health institution to the field of health work it operates in. Wikipedia notes that the World Health Organization "coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies," placing it squarely within the public health branch rather than clinical medicine. This dimension groups institutions that work within the same branch of health.

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Era of Emergence
1916 1
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1. Wikipedia: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
WikipediaJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, History section
Quote, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, History section
In June 1916, the executive committee of the Rockefeller Foundation approved the plan to organize an institute or school of public health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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