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Fixin' Healthcare

Monday, August 01, 2005

Working At It

Reductions in smoking and increased use of seatbelts are examples of public health programs that have changed behavior to improve health and safety. Their success has been the result of complex and time consuming effort that included marketing campaigns, legal proceedings, taxation and other legislation and law enforcement ("click it or ticket"). It has not been pretty or easy but the results have made a difference.