Health 4.3 Modern Public Health

Question 1

What did Booth’s and Rowntree’s reports highlight? (HE 4.3)

Answer 1

Booth:
-30% of Londoners didn’t have enough money to eat.
-Link between poverty and a high death rate.
Rowntree:
-28% of the population did not have enough to live on on at least one point of their life.

Question 2

What Liberal reforms occurred in the early 1900s? (HE 4.3)

Answer 2

• 1906: Free school meals for the poor.
• 1907: Free medical inspections.
• 1908: Children became protected persons, elderly got pensions introduced.
• 1909: Job centres built.
• 1911: Unemployment benefits, free medical treating, sick pay.

Question 3

What impacts did the wars have on public health? (HE 4.3)

Answer 3

• Overcrowded housing banned after WW1.
• 1918: Councils must provide visits for pregnant women. Day nurseries.
• 1930: Huge slum clearance programme starts.

Question 4

What was the Beveridge report? (HE 4.3)

Answer 4

• 1942 report that sold over 100.000 copies.

- Said disease, want, ignorance, idleness, squalor, could ruin lives, and the government needed to step up.

Question 5

What was the welfare state? (HE 4.3)

Answer 5

• NHS begins in 1948.
• Weekly allowance payments helped with childcare.
• Benefits for the poor.
• Slums demolishes, replaced with 280,000 council houses by 1948.

Question 6

How did healthcare develop in the 21st century? (HE 4.3)

Answer 6

• Medicine means people live longer and use up more services.
• Health campaigns such as tobacco bans and eating adverts.
• Initiatives such as 5 a day, spotting strokes and cancer.
• Technological breakthroughs and digital therapy.