The Patriotic Health Campaign, first started in the 1950s, was a campaign aimed to improve
sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation, as is hand washing with soap. Sanitation systems ...
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hygiene, as well as attack diseases in the
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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See also
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Ministry of Health
Notes
External links
"China follows Mao with mass cull"BBC news.
"Critical health literacy: a case study from China in schistosomiasis control"
in China.
Health in China
Health campaigns
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