Medicine (Modern)

Question 1

Ideas On the cause of disease

Answer 1

Progress:
DNA (from 1953) onwards, we can use DNA to identify genetic diseases like downs syndrome

Human genome project allowed doctors to use DNA to identify hereditary diseases like breast cancer, impacting prevention

Influence of lifestyle factors linked to disease, such as link between smoking and lung cancer from 1950s

Modern technology can accurately pinpoint illness e.g. blood test, CT scans & endoscopes

Question 2

Progress of Care

Answer 2

Progress:
The setting up of the NHS in 1948 was the biggest ever intervention by the government to improve the health of the British public and had significant affects:

Anyone, regardless of social background could receive the same level of service for free (paid for by taxes). this service includes high-tech medical treatment and care from specialist doctors and nurses who received high quality training and use the latest medical research and techniques, such as transplants

Question 3

Progress of prevention/public health

Answer 3

Progress:
Vaccination campaigns from the 1940s onward has ended threats of polio and diphtheria

NHS set up

Lifestyle campaigns like five a day and Stoptober

laws like the clean air acts, car emission taxes and smoking bans have sought to legally improve public health

Identifying of hereditary conditions early (e.g. breast cancer) to have preemptive surgery to reduce risks