Chinatown Declared a Nuisance: Creating a Public Health Crisis in Merced, California, 1883-1908

The English hospital, Tangier, 1883-1908.

We can imagine no career more lofty or honourable than that of a well-informed, capable and courageous medical missionary. A few hundred of such men in the next half century would powerfully affect the history of China, India and Africa. between the years 1883 and 1908. 1883 marks the beginning of medical work in Tangier and over the next twenty-five years this was the only hospital with one qu...

Swine flu: Public health has become a public nuisance.

626 The importance of everything else James Willis SWINE FLU: PUBLIC HEALTH HAS BECOME A PUBLIC NUISANCE The combination of speculative scaremongering by national health authorities and increasingly absurd directives to GP surgeries in response to the current flu outbreak confirm that public health has become a public nuisance. In July this year health minister Andy Burnham announced that the s...

childhood obesity: a global public health crisis

introduction:childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. the prevalence of  childhood obesity has increased over few years. it is caused by imbalance between calorie intake and calories utilized. one or more factors (genetic, behavioral, and environmental) cause obesity in children. physical, psychological, and social health problems are caused due to child...

Floods in Pakistan: a public health crisis.

Chinatown Health Clinic

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