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Local Government and Public Health

Record #:
18005
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Abstract:
Public health focuses on the prevention communicable diseases to nurture a healthy productive population. Local government oversees such efforts and the state was very progressive in this area. Guilford County established the first county-wide health services in 1911 and 38 years later all one hundred counties boasted this public health achievement.
Source:
Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 34 Issue 5, Feb 1968, p11-12