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The Public Health System

PROLOGUE

The Public Health System

PROLOGUE: The nation’s commitment to public health has grown by fits and starts, according to most accounts, lurching forward when an immediate danger looms and lapsing into neglect when it fades. Since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and the attempt to start an anthrax epidemic through the mail in late 2001, some impressive strides have been taken to upgrade the public health infrastructure. For example, more than 90 percent of the U.S. population will be served by a local health department with high-speed Internet access by the end of 2002, compared with 21 percent five years ago, Ed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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