foundations of public health

Question 1

Babylonians

Answer 1

hygiene, medical skills

Question 2

Egyptians

Answer 2

pharmaceutical & surgical, baths and privies

Question 3

Indigenous Tribes

Answer 3

sickness = malevolent spirits = Shamans

Question 4

Hebrews (mary)

Answer 4

Reproductive and maternal health, personal and community hygiene, isolation of lepers and other unclean conditions

Question 5

Greeks

Answer 5

Health = Environment, Rich = clean, Four Humors (Blood, Phlegm, Yellow and Black Bile), Hippocrates

Question 6

Hippocrates

Answer 6

Father of Modern Medicine
Book for urban sites
Effect of FOC in causing disease
Hippocrates School of Medicine

Question 7

Romans

Answer 7

Disease prevention
societal health
good communal food, water

Question 8

Galen

Answer 8

greek to roman
help in study of human anatomy

Question 9

Medieval Period

Answer 9

Black Plague
Leprosy = most important disease
Quarantine or Isolation
19,000 Leprosia = house for lepers
Hospices to shelter travelers and sick person
Christians preserved Roman and Greek ideals