744

Public Health And Sanitation

Scope Note

Organized measures for the prevention and control of infectious diseases and epidemics; degree of development and adequacy of public health services; specialized personnel (e.g., sanitary engineers, quarantine officers, inspectors); public health laboratories; public health activities (e.g., milk and meat inspection, imposition and enforcement of quarantines, control and extermination of disease vectors, sanitation); special control programs (e.g., yellow fever, venereal disease); public health legislation (e.g., pure food and drug acts); etc.

Broader Term
740 Health And Welfare
Related Terms
146 Nutrition
164 Morbidity
364 Refuse Disposal And Sanitary Facilities
466 Labor Relations
514 Elimination
657 Public Welfare
708 Auxiliary Corps
751 Preventive Medicine
Use Fors
Banks (blood)
Blood banks
Blood donors
Control of disease vectors
Disease vectors (control and extermination)
Diseases (public health prevention programs)
Donors (blood)
Drug and pure food acts
Epidemics (prevention)
Extermination of disease vectors
Flu (public health programs)
Health (public)
Immunization (public health program)
Influenza (public health programs)
Inoculation (public health program)
Laboratories (public health)
Legislation (public health)
Malaria (public health programs)
Meat inspection
Milk (public health inspections)
Prevention of epidemics
Pure food and drug acts
Quarantine
Sanitation and public health
Smallpox (public health programs)
Syphilis (public health programs)
Vaccination (public health programs)
Identifier
744

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