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20 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Pages 159-163

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... (#413; #414) Some critics have attributed it in part to lagging public health prevention and control efforts, as a result of transferring resources from STDs to AIDS.
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... Now that health care in our country has shifted to health promotion, disease prevention, and disease protection, college health services have a unique opportunity to help students look at their lives in a preventive 160 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course manner.
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... Asymptomatic and subclinical conditions are missed, and some symptomatic disease also goes undetected; she proposes that "by the year 2000 at least 90 percent of medical facilities responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of STDs shall have sufficient laboratory services available to them for the detection of the etiologic agents or for serological diagnosis of such diseases as gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes virus, chlamydia, Tnchomonas vaginalis and Candida albicans infections." (#754) Henry Isenberg of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center also emphasizes the importance of improving laboratory capability to diagnose STDs.
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... Public Health Rep 100~3~:261-269, 1985 6. Connell DB, Turner RR, Mason EF: Summary of findings of the school health education evaluation: Health promotion effectiveness, implementation and costs.
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... Hunter; Seattle-King County Department of Public Health 754 Wen~rorth, Berttina; American Public Health Association, Laboratory Section 759 Blum, Steven; American College Health Association 790 Weller, Thomas; Harvard University Sexually Transmitted Diseases 163
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