Historical Development Of Public Health

Question 1

What is public health ?

Answer 1

This is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public & private, community& individuals

Question 2

__ and ___ is the basis for Public health

Answer 2

Analyzing determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces

Question 3

What were popular medical practices used in the Middle Ages ?

Answer 3

Bleeding, cupping and leeching

Question 4

An excess of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile made a person -

Answer 4

Sanguine
Phlegmatic
Choleric
Melancholic

Question 5

Medical knowledge stagnated in the Middle Ages and did not develop again until

Answer 5

17th/18th centuries

Question 6

The Black Death arrived in Europe in __
Where ?

Answer 6

October 1347
The Sicilian port of Messina

Question 7

The Black Death swept through Europe within what centuries ?

Answer 7

13th - 14th centuries (reoccurred until 19th century)

*took Europe 150 years to recover

Question 8

The Black Death killed about __ in Europe

Answer 8

More than 20 million people

Question 9

The Black Death had run its course by __

Answer 9

Early 1350s

Question 10

__ suggested using bandages soaked in wine to clean wounds

Answer 10

Theodoric of Lucca

Question 11

List the herbs used in the medieval times

Answer 11

Mint - stomach complaints
Garlic - wounds
Lavender - headaches
Dandelions - colds/gallstone
Stinging nettles - aching joints