Talk:Timeline of global health

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Timeline of global health was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (March 10, 2017). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Smallpox[edit]

"Referred to as the "virgin soil" populations, the natives catch the disease through smallpox-infected blankets that the colonists deliberately use to spread the disease.[2]" The link here is dead, and the seeming implication that deliberate spreading through blankets were the main way that smallpox was spread is false, especially in a section about the 1500s-early 1700's; the first well-documented evidence of smallpox being deliberately spread through blankets is from 1763.

I've removed that section for now, and will reintroduce information on pre-1750 stuff later in a more comprehensive and thoroughly referenced manner. Vipul (talk) 22:24, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 09:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

This article surprisingly provides no historical perspective before 1700: what about Dioscorides's thousand-odd medicines (mainly from medicinal plants) described in detail in De Materia Medica, including many drugs known to be effective? The article clearly requires a section on medical advances in ancient times, for instance including Medicine in ancient Rome, to begin to counter the article's recentism. The articles on History of medicine and History of surgery contain many further suggestions that may help to bring this article towards the standard required for GA. In particular, the article is insufficiently "broad in its coverage", failing to address all "the main aspects" of the topic, criterion 3a. The article is also essentially a list, and as such is ineligible for GA in any case: once revised, it should be submitted as a featured list candidate. For both these reasons, it would not be appropriate to continue with a GA review now. I hope the suggestions here will help to improve the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem[edit]

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