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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877–1957) was a
seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United
States, but in the wider Western world. His vision and intellectual
leadership enabled him, more than anyone else, to influence the development
of public health services in the United States as well as in many European
nations. His inspired leadership did much to ensure that the rapidly
developing industrial cities and the rural regions of the United States were
adequately provided with the essential public health services of sanitation,
regulation of food-and waterborne hazards to health, development of
health-education programs, and education of public health specialists. In a
period dominated by discoveries in bacteriology, he recognized the
importance of a broader perspective on causation than that embraced by the
germ theory of disease. |