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Presents a historical overview of federal initiatives in disease-prevention and health-promotion activities in the US, noting that the clues about basic causes of major disease entities emerging in the 1950's and 1960's have begun to coalesce in the past 10 yrs. For example, the relationship between smoking and health-related problems became a given fact, society marshaled a major antismoking effort, and nearly 40 million individuals quit smoking as a result. Similar shifts in dietary habits as a result of public-awareness efforts are chronicled. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
