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Even before the earthquake Haiti suffered from poor public health infrastructure and little preventive services, leading to high prevalence of infectious disease, low life expectancy, and many other preventable conditions. Lack of well developed public health infrastructure makes disaster mitigation difficult in the events of major disasters.