About this deck
Between 1900 and 2000, life expectancy at birth rose from ~47 to ~77 years in the United States. Modern medicine — antibiotics, surgery, transplant — accounts for some of that. The rest came from public health: clean water, vaccines, sanitation, food safety, occupational regulation, tobacco control, road safety. Key sections include: Public Health.; The Quiet Revolution; Counting What Kills; Best Buy in History; Pipes, Soap, Survival; The Epidemiological Triangle; The Most Successful Behavior Change; How We Know What We Know; What Governments Can Do; One World.
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