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World rabies day, 28 September 2022.

By Andre Burbidge · September 28, 2022 · Books, Uncategorised · No comments

28 September 2022 marks World Rabies Day. This year’s theme is “One health ; zero death” : see: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/09/28/default-calendar/world-rabies-day-2022The World Health Organization has a target for the elimination of deaths due to dog-mediated infection…

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National Immunization Awareness Month

By Andre Burbidge · August 10, 2022 · Uncategorised · No comments

(see https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niam/index.html)

The National Immunization Awareness Month is held annually in August, focusing on the importance of immunization at all ages (see https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niam/index.html)

I was born in April 1964, in Birmingham, West Midlands. My…

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Public Health Ethics

By · June 5, 2018 · Books, Journals · No comments

Public health involves interactions with a variety of professionals each with overlapping values and goals. In comparison to bioethics or medical ethics, which has a strong grounding in the discourse of the individual or autonomous directives, public health ethics has a distinctive characteristic of having a population wide perspective. In…

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