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International Trade, Law, and Public Health Advocacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Jason W. Sapsin ,
Theresa M. Thompson ,
Lesley Stone  and
Katherine E. DeLand
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Public Health Science and practice expanded during the course of the 20th century. Initially focused on controlling infectious disease through basic public health programs regulating water, sanitation and food, by 1988 the Institute of Medicine broadly declared that “public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to. assure the conditions for people to be healthy.” Commensurate with this definition, public health practitioners and policymakers today work on ;in enormous range of issues. The 2002 policy agenda of the American Public Health Association reflects positions on genomics’ role in public health; national health and safety standards for child care programs; sodium in Americans’ diets; the health and safety of emergency rescue workers; and war in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , Winter 2003 , pp. 546 - 556
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2003

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