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Organized community efforts to promote health and prevent disease:
Integrated concepts of prevention into culture/religion/laws
Prohibitions against specific food (pork, beef, seafood). Including the specific preparations: officially designated methods of killing cattle and methods of cooking
Prohibitions against alcohol or limited use for religious ceremony (control behavior and prevent disease)
Prohibition of cannibalism (strong grounding in protection of health)
Sexual practices as having health consequences
Male circumcision
Pre-marital abstinence
Marital fidelity
Quarantine/isolation of individuals with disease or those who have been exposed to disease
At times, they were successful but without a solid scientific basis.
Didn’t work for the Black Plague where they walled the towns from outsider, but didn’t realize it was the rats and fleas spreading disease.
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Individual Productions of Insights into Preventing Disease
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