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- Farmer began modestly, with a preliminary health census.†
Chpt 2.8 *census = an official count of a population
- Paul had expanded and refined the health census he'd begun around Cange in 1983.†
Chpt 2.9
- He'd found a book that described a census done in a rural part of India, and he used it as a manual.†
Chpt 2.9
- He'd begun with the census because that was the way to identify problems and to begin building records and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well the new system was working.†
Chpt 2.9
- He'd begun with the census because that was the way to identify problems and to begin building records and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well the new system was working.†
Chpt 2.9censuses = official counts of a population
- Back in England after the summer of 1985, she had done some modest fund-raising of her own and, on Paul's instructions, bought ten scales for weighing babies, to use for identifying infants at risk in the continuing health census.†
Chpt 2.10census = an official count of a population
- He remembered many other patients who had died, along with their lab data, and remembered vividly three young Haitians who had worked with him on the first health census of Cange: Acéphie, picked off by malaria, Michelet by typhoid, Ti-tap Joseph by puerperal sepsis.†
Chpt 2.11
- Farmer also traveled to Lima, to conduct a health census in the slum, as Ophelia had helped him to do a decade ago in Cange.†
Chpt 3.14
- Back before Father Jack's death, while helping Jim on the health census, Farmer had asked the project director of Socios en Salud if drug-resistant tuberculosis was a problem in the northern slums of Lima.†
Chpt 3.14
Definitions:
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(1)
(census) an official count of a population (often accompanied by collection of other data)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)