Public Health

Public Health

Ancient Rome
1. Roman Enginnering
  1. Aquaducts
  2. Baths
  3. Public toilets
  4. Sewers
2. War
  1. Soldier Healthcare
  2. Healthy Army
3. Prevention not cure
4. Money spent on keeping fit
5. Government left it too the people for general health
Black plague
1. Le-safiare
2. War
  1. Military Government
  2. Major focous
3. Personal cures
  1. Chicken/toads on buboes
  2. Flagellants
  3. Praying
4. London
  1. Killing animals
  2. Sweeping outside your house
1665 Plauge
1. Scientific Knowledge
  1. Protective clothing
  2. Bird masks with herbs inside
  3. Not touching the dead
2. Burying dead outside of city
3. Red crosses on infected hosues
4. Little government management
1848 and 1875 public health acts
1. Housing laws
  1. Bans the construction of back to back housing
  2. Must have enough space between houses for rubbish carts
  3. More sanitary facilities
2. Bazalgette has created sewers
  1. Allows new sanitary infrastructure
3. Cholera epidemic
  1. More interest in poverty stricken areas
  2. People like Chadwick and Farr do surveys on poor areas
4. Many councils and builders ignore new laws
  1. Back to back housing still built
  2. Documents forged
5. Manditry midwife training
Liberal Reforms 1906-1914
1. Lloyd George
  1. Very popular with pulic
  2. Backs the Liberal reforms using his influence
2. New rights for the poor
  1. Free school dinners
  2. National insurance fund
    1. Sick pay
    2. Fights poverty
  3. Free check ups
3. Did not help the unemployed
4. Effects were no that large
5. Demolishing more back to back housing
NHS 1948
1. Beveridge report
  1. Cradle to the grave
  2. Proposal of national health service
  3. Everyone pays in to the national fund
2. Nye Bevan
  1. From miners family
  2. Strong liberal
  3. Well liked by public
  4. Leads the national health service proposal
3. Free health service for everone
  1. Helps poor and unemployed
  2. Nearly all treatments for free
  3. Medical research and doctor training
4. Doctors against it
  1. Had be bribed by Bevan
  2. Wanted more money from private
  3. Were allowed to performs privately aswell

Next up

Description

Resource summary

Similar

	Created by pontiki over 10 years ago