Prevention

• Lifestyle campaigns

  • Convince people to change unhealthy habits such as: smoking, drinking and unhealthy eating
• Diphtheria vaccine

  • Major killer of disease
  • In 1940, 60,000 cases and 3000 deaths
  • Vaccine campaign started in 1940
  • After vaccine cases dropped to 38 with only 6 deaths
• Polio vaccine

  • The infection attacks the digestive system, bloodstream and nervous system leading to paralysis, especially in children
  • Polio epidemics in 1940-1950 made 30,000 children disabled
  • Vaccine introduced and a national campaign for everyone under 40 to be vaccinated started
  • Disease eradicated by the late 1970s