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HYDATID CONTROL A PROBLEM IN HEALTH EDUCATION
Author(s) -
Beard T. C.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb107194.x
Subject(s) - apathy , politics , control (management) , disease control , public health , disease , scale (ratio) , medicine , political science , psychology , public relations , environmental health , nursing , geography , pathology , management , law , economics , cartography
A full‐scale programme to control hydatid disease depends on a political decision, which is difficult to obtain in a community completely apathetic to the disease. The barrier of initial apathy was removed in Tasmania by a public movement based on Begg's campaign in New Zealand. It seems significant that in Tasmania this method succeeded when used as the sole approach in a community which was largely unprepared by any previous propaganda.