Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Public Health
- Dirt, disease and public health: nature of the
problem
- Impact of industrial
revolutions on
living conditions
- significance of increasing and
mobile population for public health
- Theories of disease
- Exploring source material:
problems in establishing an
effective public health system
- Public health provision before 1848
- Cholera
- Epidemics of: 1831-2, 1848-9, 1853-4, 1866-7
- Reactions of the
Board of Health and
local boards
- Role of John snow and the pressure for reform
- Importance of Edwin
Chadwick in the debate for
change
- Using source material to evaluate the importance of the individual
- Joseph Bazalgette
- legislation
- Connection between the Poor Law and public health
- The significance if the reoprt on the
Sanitary conditions of the Labouring
Populations of Great Britain 1842 by
Chadwick. His impact on the 1844
Report of the Royal Commission into
the Sanitary conditions of Large Towns
and Populous Districts, and the Health
of Towns Association
- The 1848 Public Health Act - its significance and
implementation
- The need for later
legislation 1858 and
1866 and the impact
of these Acts
- Exploring source
material: Opposition to
public health provision
- Interrelationship of factors
- 1875 Public
Health Act:
why was it
necessary?
- Improved inderstanding about
the nature and transmission of
disease
- Changing attitudes to
state intervention
(Laissez-faire)
- Civil engineering, new technologies and possiblities
- Exploring source material: A
local study on public health
provision e.g. Leeds or
Exeter