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CDC, Government Reporting Chain: NARMS, CDC, No date

The federal government established the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS) in 1996 as a national public…

Tags: Antibiotic Resistance, CDC, FDA, Health, NARMS, Public Health, USDA

CDC/ Mary Hilpertshauser, Polio Campaign, 1963, CDC, 1963

In 1961, oral polio vaccine (OPV) was invented by Dr Albert Sabin and introduced in the US. Sabin’s strategy was to give trivalent OPV to all children…

Tags: Albert Sabin, Campaign, Health, OPV, Polio, Public Health

US House of Representatives - Office of Martha Roby, American Heart Association, US House of Representatives, October 2019

The American Heart Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce…

Tags: AHA, American Heart Association, Cardiovascular Disease, Health, Nonprofit, Public Health, Stroke

District of Columbia Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Wash your hands, before touching your eyes, National Archives, 1941-1945

No description given

Tags: Blindness, Cleanliness, Eye Health, Health, Hygiene, Public Health, Wash Your Hands

Harris & Ewing, Trailer Clinic, Library of Congress, 1937

Dr. L.E. Burney and Nurse Fran Miller, members of the Public Health Service staff traveled with the trailer which was built for use in a syphilis…

Tags: Disease, Fran Miller, Health, L.E. Burney, Public Health, Public Health Service, Syphilis

National Library of Medicine/Mullick, Biman, Tobacco or Health: Choose Health, National Library of Medicine, 1988

The headline in this poster presents a choice between tobacco and health, while an abstraction of a human head chooses flowers over a cigarette.
…

Tags: Health, Public Health, Tobacco, WHO, World Health Organization

Library of Congress, Cook County Public Health Unit, Library of Congress, 1936-1941

This poster is one of the 907 posters produced by Work Projects Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. The posters…

Tags: Arts, Community, Cook County, Education, Programs, Public Health, WPA

Bain News Service, Stephen Smith, Founder of the American Public Health Association, Library of Congress, 1-Jan-14

Stephen Smith, a physician and attorney, served on the New York City's Metropolitan Health Board and founded the American Public Health Association in…

Tags: APHA, Health, Healthcare, Public Health, Stephen Smith

American Red Cross, American Red Cross, National Archives, 1941-1945

After World War I, the Red Cross became involved with a variety of public health programs. In 1921, for example, they began offering nutrition courses…

Tags: American RedCross, Home Nursing, Infant Care, Nutrition, Public Health, RedCross, Sanitation

Alaska department of Health and Social services, AIDS Preventing Project, Alaska department of Health and Social services, None

Various posters to provide education about AIDS
(i) A small boy standing on a stool with his hands on top of a very large blue book with
…

Tags: AIDS, AIDS Prevention, Campaign, Education, HIV, HIV Prevention, Public Health