Impactful People In Public Health

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

First epidemiologist

Made doctors oath

Father of medicine

Said that there were 4 humours and that disease was a result of their imbalance

Question 2

Florence Nightingale

Answer 2

Made nursing a respected position

Nurses soldiers back to health in war

Changed professional training standards in medicine

Question 3

Mary Mallon

Answer 3

First person in the USA with typhoid fever

Cooked

Was in quarantine for 30 years

Question 4

Thomas Sydenham

Answer 4

Wrote the standard textbook for medicine that was used for 200 years

English Hippocrates

Question 5

Robert Koch

Answer 5

Linked certain microorganisms to specific diseases

Founder of bacteriology

Found causes for tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera

Question 6

Alice Hamilton

Answer 6

Studies the illnesses and faults caused by metals from factories

First woman appointed to Harvard facility

Peace activist

Question 7

Edward Jenner

Answer 7

Made first ever vaccine

Vaccine for smallpox from cowpox

Question 8

Lemuel shattuck

Answer 8

Made Boston census of 1845

Described the document as a way to develop Pueblo health

Question 9

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 9

Linked poor living conditions to poor health

Made public health act of 1848

Question 10

John snow

Answer 10

Identified the cause of cholera, it was through water

Halted a major outbreak of cholera in London because of a bad water pump

Question 11

Louis pasteneur

Answer 11

Created vaccines for anthrax and rabies

Figured out that bacteria is destroyed if you heat something up and then cook it down

Question 12

John Graunt

Answer 12

Created first Life table

Used statistics in public heath

Used the paper to warn and try to prevent bubonic plague outbursts

Question 13

Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 13

Found microorganisms using homemade microscopes

Found one celled animal and plant organisms and bacteria

100 years ahead of his time

Question 14

William Farr

Answer 14

Worked with John Snow on cholera

Use demographics to show causes of deaths

Question 15

James Lind

Answer 15

1st ever clinical trail using sailors with scurvy

Proved that vitamin c keeps scurvy away