Some diseases have little commercial attention and fall hardest on the rural poor, and public health programs have been built specifically to control or eliminate them. This path begins with three regional initiatives...
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Open defecation, the practice of going outdoors because a household has no toilet, is both a health problem and a policy problem, and these twelve national programs show how governments tried to end it. The path runs...
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Maternal death fell where governments put a trained midwife, a community volunteer or free facility care within reach of a pregnant woman. These eight programs follow that idea in order of their launch, from Sri Lanka...
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Governments have long tried to prevent chronic disease across whole populations rather than treat it one patient at a time. These nine programs, from a Finnish county in 1972 to Singapore in 2016, show the main...
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These eight programs share one idea: that feeding children and the women who bear them is a public duty and not only a family matter. The path runs from a 1946 American school lunch law to a 2018 Indian nutrition...
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Routine childhood vaccination began as a set of separate national programs and became a shared global effort. These eleven stops follow that growth in order of launch, from the national programs that started in the...
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This path follows fifteen programs that set out to bring down three of the largest infectious killers. It begins with national HIV responses built in the late 1980s, moves through the standard tuberculosis treatment...
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This path follows national and public health insurance programs in roughly the order they began, from Bismarck's sickness funds in 1883 to Indonesia's national scheme in 2014. Each stop shows a different answer to the...
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Eight programs show how countries and organizations have trained local people to carry basic health care into communities that had little access to physicians. They are ordered roughly by when each began, from China's...
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This path follows ten public health campaigns that set out to remove a disease from whole populations, in the order they began, from the yaws campaign of 1952 to the measles partnership of 2001. Together they show the...
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From a Berlin laboratory in 1891 to a Seattle data institute founded in 2007: six institutions, none of which existed before public health became an organized field.
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Six branches and concepts across the health atlas each carry an unresolved argument. This trail walks through what is contested in each field: how far screening should reach before its harms outweigh its benefits...
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Three mid-to-late twentieth century moments changed what the field knew, or thought it knew: a cohort of British doctors that proved smoking caused lung cancer, a Senate report that tried to tell Americans what to eat...
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How health became public: a walk through six moments where disease stopped being private misfortune and became something a society could measure, prevent and, once, abolish outright. It begins with a report on filth and...
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Public health began as local sanitation and ended the century writing treaties. This trail follows prevention as it scaled: a vaccine given to schoolchildren across one country, a charter that redefined health promotion...
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