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The CDC is a US federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is considered the leading national public health institute in the United States. Its main goal is to protect public health by controlling and preventing disease, disability, and injury. [21] [38] Malaria (initially) United States (Atlanta, Georgia) 1947: Crisis
The sanitarians : a history of American public health (1992) online; Duffy, John. A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625–1866 (1968) the major scholarly study; covers sanitation, water supply, food safety, housing, schools, hospitals, diseases, medical care, and the progress of medicine. online. Duffy, John.
Timeline of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact (47,000 BCE–1492 CE); Timeline of environmental history (15,000 BCE – present); Timeline of country and capital changes (3850 BCE – present)
Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1998), good coverage of the British record in ch. 8-9. Rosen, George A History of Public Health (1958). online, a standard scholarly history. Sheppard, Francis. London 1808-1870: The infernal wen (1971, reprint 2022) online, see pp 247–296.. Siena, Kevin.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1822, 1828, 1830, printed 1837; Auguste Comte, Course of Positive Philosophy, 1830–1842; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835; William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded upon their History, 1840; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215173-1. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006); 416pp; excerpt and text search. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), formed in 1946, is the leading national public health institute of the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to public health: Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease", prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations (public and private), communities and individuals. [1]