Vaccines: A public health success story | Health.mil

Vaccines: A public health success story | Health.mil

Vaccines: A public health success story Throughout U.S. history, people have benefited from improvements in the field of public health. The availability of clean water, the development of sewage systems, and other effective interventions worked to cut the rate of disease in entire segments of the population at relatively low cost. Vaccination is an intervention that has proved effective in terms of cost and effort in protecting the population from disease.