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- Title
THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE IN THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS CELEBRATES ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY.
- Authors
Bencko, Vladimír
- Abstract
The article offers information on the public health service in the Czech and Slovak Republics which is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2013. It offers examples of the various practical applications of preventive medicine, specifically in the field of epidemiology, including mass anti-polio vaccinatons in the early 1960s, an extensive epidemiological study of endemic goitre, and the introduction of fluoridation of drinking water to prevent caries.
- Subjects
CZECH Republic; SLOVAKIA; PUBLIC health; ANNIVERSARIES; PREVENTIVE medicine; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLIOMYELITIS vaccines; ENDEMIC goiter
- Publication
Central European Journal of Public Health, 2013, Vol 21, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
1210-7778
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21101/cejph.b0002