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Article: Mass Medication
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MASS MEDICATION
The term "mass medication" describes procedures used to deliver a preventive or therapeutic regimen to a population, rather than to individual members of that population. The implication is that the regimen is delivered unobtrusively. The members of the target population may not be aware that they are receiving the medication, and they have not given individual consent. Examples include the addition of vitamin and mineral supplements to infant formula, iodine to table salt, and fluoride to drinking water. When vitamin and mineral supplements are added to infant formula, the facts are provided on the label, although not everyone reads this; salt that has been enriched ...
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Article: Letter: Mass medication.(Letters)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);
August 5, 2004 ;
447 words
... ... programme, which is the aspiration of Liverpool City Council. This has to be better than imposing controversial indiscriminate mass medication of all and sundry with a pesticide for a relatively minor disease which is eminently treatable by other, targeted, means ...
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