Disease Prevention

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Anti-Vaccination Fever: The Shot Hurt Around the World
Hoyt, William John, Jr.
Article
2004
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgott...
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Garrett, Laurie
Book
2000
The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
HealthSources.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important arti...

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Health Action Network Society (HANS)
A membership-based consumer health organization; information resource centre on alternative health since 1982. Information collected and disseminated is in the realm of self-care, alternative medicine...
Ontario Public Health Association
To enhance the health of all the people of Ontario and to eliminate all preventable health problems.

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One latrine at a time
Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
George, Rose
2012
Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. ...
Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Respected source of health information.