Healthy People 2010 Initiative
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Healthy people 2010, is an all inclusive countrywide promotion for health and prevention of diseases. The initiative formed a road map on whose basis the health of all American people was supposed to be improved in the first ten years of the 21st century. The initiatives predecessor was the Healthy people 2000 initiative that was supposed to improve the overall health of the nation during the end of the 20 th
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تاریخ انتشار 2017