
From Romans to MDGs: The Stories of Public Health
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Colonization and Epidemiology
Colonization did play a huge part in the evolution of public health. The people who worked for the colonizers had to protect these people, because now their well being was very very, very important for their economan benefit. So earth colonizes allnizes. Taking care of the health of the people of the country they were colonizing was more important than economic benefits. And this actually is up is known as the basis of modern epidemiology.
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