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: Screening (medicine)
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In 1968, the World Health Organization published guidelines on the Principles and practice of screening for disease, which is often referred to as the Wilson and Jungner criteria.
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