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  • Title: Health begins at home: reflections on the theme of W.H.O. day 1973.
    Author: Williams CD.
    Journal: J Trop Med (1898); 1973; 76(8):210-6. PubMed ID: 12333538.
    Abstract:
    Health depends more on the physical, mental, and social conditions of the home than on the nearness of medical institutions with modern facilities. Diseases that could be prevented by good homes and good health prove either fatal or damaging to a majority of the world's population. To improve home conditions a stable government, economic development, and health and education services are necessary. Rather than the traditional separation of preventive and curative programs, health services must be comprehensive in order to identify special problems and risks and to rate priorities. These services must include special care and education for at-risk groups, training of staff to provide continuous care for all ages both within and outside of institutions, and an organized vital and health statistics system that can be used to guide policy and evaluate progress. Maternal and child health services can fulfill a particularly significant task by reaching individual homes and identifying, treating, and preventing disease.
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