The Rise and Fall of Public Health (1) Flashcards
1
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Hippocrates
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First systemic approach to describe casual relationship between human disease and environment
2
Q
Edwin Chadwick
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Disease was main reason for poverty, 1842
3
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1848 Public health act
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Local boards of health in districts where death rate higher than average, street cleaning, water supplies and sewerage
4
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1875 Public health act
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Enforced laws about slum clearance, provision of sewers and clean water, removal of nuisances
5
Q
1948
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NHS established
6
Q
Semmelweis
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Hand washing, died in asylum as no evidence
7
Q
Koch (1884)
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Micro-organisms
8
Q
1872 Public health act
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Local medical officer of health
9
Q
Microbiology
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- Robert Koch
- Louis Pasteur
- Ferdinand Cohn
10
Q
Sanitation
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- Inga Semmelweis
- Joseph Lister
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
11
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The intervention ladder
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- Do nothing/monitor
- Provide information
- Enable choice
- Guide choices through changing the default policy
- Guide choices through incentives
- Guide choices through disincentives
- Restrict choice
- Eliminate choice
