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 syste ...
,
hygiene
Hygiene is a series of practices performed to preserve health.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases." Personal hygiene refer ...
, 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 List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
.
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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