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Author: James Colgrove
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0871540630
Category: Medical

Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York

The first permanent Board of Health in the United States was created in response to a cholera outbreak in New York City in 1866. Download Epidemic City medical books for free.
By the mid-twentieth century, thanks to landmark achievements in vaccinations, medical data collection, and community health, the NYC Department of Health had become the nation's gold standard for public health. However, as the city's population grew in number and diversity, new epidemics emerged, and the department struggled to balance its efforts between the treatment of diseases such as AIDS, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and West Nile Virus and the prevention of illness-causing factors like lead paint, heroin addiction, homelessness, smoking, and unhealthy foods. In Epidemic City, historian of public health Get Epidemic City our bestseller medical books.

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By the mid-twentieth century, thanks to landmark achievements in vaccinations, medical data collection, and community health, the NYC Department of Health had become the nation's gold standard for public health In Epidemic City, historian of public health

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