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Community Health

Community health is concerned with the maintenance, protection and improvement of the health status of a community population. In this formulation, though, it is ambiguous about whether this is a service of the administrative state, or the common good of a local people. In our position, we emphasize the solidarity of community health, and its corresponding grounding in the non-profit sector.

We have initiated a project to examine the history of community health in the province.


 
 
 

Historical Notes

  • “I have often thought how ridiculous it was that a nation, whose ancestors knew so well the value of liberty as to have maintained it with the last drop of their blood should be instrumental in enslaving a race of people whose only crime, if I judge right, is that the same Being which created them, for reasons beyond the capacity of mortals, made them black instead of white ...” Richard John Uniacke (1753-1830)

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Maritime Institute for Civil Society
P.O. Box 8041, Halifax, N.S. B3K 5L8