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Activists and Advocates : Toronto's Health Department 1883-1983

6 Jan 1990

For more than a century, Toronto’s Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department’s staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable disease control procedures that have made the city a healthy place to live.

This centennial history anlyzes the complex interaction of politics, patronage and professional aspirations which determine the success or failure of specific policies and programs. As such, it fills a long neglected gap in our understanding of the development of local health services.

Using Toronto’s changing circumstances as a backdrop, the book details the evolution of the international public health movement through its various phases culminating in the modern emphasis on health promotion and health advocacy. By so doing, it demonstrates the significant contribution of preventive medicine and public health activities to Canadian life

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Authors

Heather MacDougall

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
362.1/09713/541
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
20
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-on
ISBN
1550020722 9781554880652
LCCN
RA186.T6
LCCN Item number
M32 1990eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOTU
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (334 p.)
Published in
Canada
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)thg00603047 (OCoLC)277579959 (CaOOCEL)410427
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOTU

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