This public health breakthrough had instantaneous and, as we now know, enduring impact throughout the world.
An effective vaccine for preventing hookworm infection would therefore be an important public health breakthrough.
Prophylactic HPV vaccination represents a major public health breakthrough and has the potential to prevent 70 75% of cervical cancers in women vaccinated before contact with the virus, that is, before sexual debut (Harper et al, 2004; Villa et al, 2005).
UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and the Federal Ministry of Health of the newly-formed Government of Southern Sudan are working with dozens of NGO partners, hundreds of local health workers and communities to achieve a public health breakthrough.
When the atypical antipsychotics were introduced into the market in the early 1990s (most notably risperidone and olanzapine), they were presented to the public as "breakthrough medications" that were both more effective and safer than the standard neuroleptics (like chlorpromazine and haloperidol).
What led, at times, to some degree of economic leveling was not a voluntary sharing of the wealth by the richest Americans but, rather, economic struggles by unions and public policy breakthroughs secured by progressive politicians.
"Some are public-perception breakthroughs.
Neither government, however, had done much to prepare its public for a breakthrough.
"With that driving me, set up against the fact that I had dropped out of college and had no skill set, and I was twenty-three and might be a bum, stumbling onto making my self-examination public was a breakthrough for me.
When the BNP looked to be on the verge of a breakthrough, public figures in the mainstream of political and media life asked why "the white working class" – a loosely defined yet apparently clod-like mass – was supporting this regressive movement en masse.
