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History of Preventive Medicine

  • Becker D
Springer US, (1988), 13-21
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5356-0_2
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The concept of preventive health care is not modern. Before the 20th-century biomedical revolution, important advances had been made in the understanding and prevention of infectious diseases and nutritional deficiency. Long before the advent of scientific...

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Becker, D. M. (1988). History of Preventive Medicine. In Prevention in Clinical Practice (pp. 13–21). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5356-0_2

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