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poor clothing, lack of education,
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working conditions in sweatshops,
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mines and factories, child labor,
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overcrowded housing.
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These I would call social and economic determinants of disease.
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And there were voices, particularly on the continent,
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for an alternative public health that would address
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precisely such broad interests.
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There was an older tradition of what was called a "Medical police"
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On the continent, and a current of thought
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of what was called "Social medicine",
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whose most prominent figure was this man,