(LECT) COPUB HISTORY Flashcards
-DEFECATION NEAR THE SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER -RITES ASSOCIATED WITH BURIAL OF THE DEAD -USE OF HERBS FOR DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDBIRTH
Earliest Civilizations
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
18th Century
-BEGINNING OF RECOGNITION OF
THE NATURE OF DISEASE
-CITIES WERE OVERCROWDED
18th Century
-WATER SUPPLIES- INADEQUATE
AND UNSANITARY
-STREETS FILLED WITH GARBAGE
18th Century
- DIRTY FLOORS IN HOMES
- WORKPLACES WERE UNSAFE
18th Century
POOR CHILDREN WERE FORCED TO WORK LONG HOURS IN UNSAFE AND UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS (TEXTILE FACTORIES AND COAL MINES)
18th Century
EPIDEMICS
OUTBREAKS IN MAJOR CITIES
(US & EUROPE)
19th Century
studied the epidemic and hypothesized that the disease was being caused by the drinking water from the Broad Street pump.
DR. JOHN SNOW
year cholera epidemic happened
1854
MODERN ERA OF PUBLIC HEALTH
1850
drew up a health report for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that outlined the public health needs for the state.
LEMUEL SHATTUCK
living organisms could arise from inorganic or nonliving matter.
THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
theoriezed the THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
ARISTOTLE
certain diseases are caused by the invasion of the body by microorganisms, organisms too small to be seen except through a microscope.
GERM THEORY OF DISEASE
theorized GERM THEORY OF DISEASE
LOUIS PASTEUR
1 most common cause of death in the US in 2013
heart disease
1 actual cause of death in the US in 2000
Tobacco
Archeological findings provide
evidence of sewage disposal and written medical
prescriptions.
Early Civilizations
Code of Hammurabi; included laws for physicians and health
practices
Early Civilizations
Bible’s Book of Leviticus written;
includes guidelines for personal cleanliness and
sanitation.
Early Civilizations-Ancient Societies
Christians created hospitals as benevolent charitable organizations.
Early Civilizations- Classical Cultures
health problems were considered to have both spiritual causes and spiritual solutions,a time referred
to as the spiritual era of public health
Early Civilizations-Middle Ages
Failure to take into account the role of the physical and
biological environment in the causation of communicable diseases resulted in many unrelenting epidemics
in which millions suffered and died
Early Civilizations-Middle Ages
caused the Black Death
Yersinia pestis
Rebirth of thinking about the nature of world and
humankind.
Early Civilizations-Renaissance and Exploration
Belief that disease was caused by environmental,
not spiritual, factors
Early Civilizations-Renaissance and Exploration
published the Observations on
the Bills of Mortality, which was the beginning of vital
statistics
John Graunt
Epidemics continued to be a problem in the nineteenth century, with outbreaks
in major cities in both Europe and America
Nineteenth Century
: Dr. Edward Jenner successfully demonstrated
smallpox vaccination.
Eighteenth Century
the period of
1875–1900, during which the causes
of many bacterial diseases were
discovered
Bacteriological period of
public health
developed the criteria and procedures necessary to establish that a particular microbe, and no other, causes a particular disease.
ROBERT KOCH
THE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH
WERE COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES
twentieth century
VITAMIN DEFICIENCY DISEASES AND ONE OF THEIR CONTRIBUTING CONDITIONS, POOR DENTAL HEALTH, WERE EXTREMELY COMMON
twentieth century
- HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
twenty-first century
- LIFESTYLE DISEASES
- COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
twenty-first century
ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE
HEALTH DISPARITIES
DISASTERS
twenty-first century
