Discuss the impact of the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution on the health of Europe and the United States in the 18th and 19th
... [Show More] centuries. correct answers More migration to cities, cities able to house much closer quarters (substandard housing)
- Lack of sunlight (rickets- softening of bone due to lack of vitamin D)
- trash- disease spreading
- poor sanitation- fleas bite rats which carry in disease
- animal vectors
- Water came from thames/contaminated with sewage
Discuss the origins of the modern system of surveillance for disease. State what the "Bills or Mortality" were, why the practice of "numbering the people" began, and the importance of this to the evolution of public health. correct answers Monarchy's strength was measured in part by the number and health of the population
Foundation of establishing records of deaths
To track plague deaths
- Weren't always accurate
- More description of symptoms
Dr. William Farr correct answers First office to do cumpulsory records of births, deaths, marriages
One of founders of WHO
Villerme correct answers Noted that mortality varies among districts in Paris
Found that mortality correlated nearly perfectly with the degree of poverty
- The findings did not spark action.
Jeremy Bentham correct answers Utilitarianism: Greatest good for greatest number of people
Lemuel Shattuck correct answers Proposed standard nomenclature for disease
Collected data by age, sex, occupation, socioeconomic level, location
Applied data to programs in immunization, school health, smoking, alcohol abuse
MA legislator who introduced registration of births,
marriages & deaths (after a long campaign).
Edwin Chadwick correct answers He published his 'Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain' proving that life expectancy was much lower in towns than in the countryside.
- Report/discussion of huge discrepancy between avg age of poor vs rich.
- Drew clear distinction between treatment and prevention
- Can we prevent this from happening instead of just treating?
- Engineers should change environment [Show Less]