Beyond the COVID-19 crisis: building on lost opportunities in the history of public health
The influenza pandemic of 1918–1920, which killed 50 000 Canadians, spurred the creation of a federal department of public health. But in the intervening century, public health at all levels has remained, as Marc Lalonde put it in 1988, the “poor cousin” in the health care system (Lalonde 1988, p. 7...
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| Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
2021-01-01
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| Series: | FACETS |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0002 |