Chapter 5

Question 1

what are infectious diseases?

Answer 1

diseases caused by micro-organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites that can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another

Question 2

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Answer 2

COVID-19, tuberculosis, polio, smallpox

Question 3

what were the common causes of death in 1900s

Answer 3

infectious and respiratory diseases

Question 4

what were the living conditions like in the 1900s?

Answer 4

• Minimal access to clean water and sanitation facilities, little known about good hygiene practices
• Waste on streets, attracting rats and mice that carried disease
• Overcrowded and poor-quality housing common

Question 5

What is ‘old’ public health?

Answer 5

Gov actions that focused on changing physical environment to prevent spread of disease e.g providing safe water, sanitation and sewage disposal, improved nutrition, improved housing conditions and better work conditions

Question 6

what was the aim of the ‘old’ public health?

Answer 6

• To improve people’s health
• Policies and practices were important in reducing prevalence of infectious and parasitic diseases, respiratory diseases and injuries that were prevalent during 1900s

Question 7

Policies and Practices of ‘Old’ Public health

- Establishment of government-funded water and sewage systems and better sanitation

Answer 7

This provided people with clean water to drink and removed garbage and waste from the streets, contributing to a reduction in deaths from infectious diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera.

Question 8

What is sanitation?

Answer 8

sanitation the process of eliminating contact between humans and hazardous wastes, including human and animal faeces and urine, solid wastes, domestic wastewater (sewage and grey water), industrial wastes and agricultural wastes

Question 9

Policies and Practices of ‘Old’ Public health:

Quarantine laws

Question 10

Policies and Practices of ‘Old’ Public health

Elimination of housing slums and introduction of better-quality housing

Question 11

Policies and Practices of ‘Old’ Public health

Improved food and nutrition

Question 12

Policies and Practices of ‘Old’ Public health

Improved working conditions

Question 13

Policies and Practices of ‘Old’ Public health

More hygienic birthing practices

Answer 13

During World War I, the Commonwealth Government provided funding to the states for the introduction of tuberculosis and venereal disease public health campaigns to address the high level of mortality and morbidity from these diseases.