Old health

Question 1

What is the old public health?

Answer 1

The beginning of 20th century, living conditions were very poor, access to clean water and sanitation facilities were minimal, little no no hygiene practices. Overcrowded and poor quality housing. Meaning infectious diseases were common and accounted for death and disability.

Question 2

Clean drinking water - what it meant, how it affected health status

Answer 2

People were provided with safe drinking water.
Infectious diseases decreased - diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera
- improved infant and child mortality rates
- improved life expectancy

Question 3

Sewage systems/sanitation improved - what it meant, how if affected health status

Answer 3

Helped kept to human wastes separated from water supplies, garbage and waste were removed from the streets.
- infectious diseases decreased, gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, cholera, hepatitis
- improved infant and child mortality rates
- improved life expectancy

Question 4

Better quality housing, what it meant, how it affected health status

Answer 4

all houses needed to be built with drains and sewerage, houses need ventilation, clean up slums in major cities.
- reduced deaths from diseases, pneumonia, influenza.
- improved infant and child mortality rates
- improved life expectancy

Question 5

improved food and nutrition, what it means, how it affected health status.

Answer 5

Public health campaigns promoted the important of food hygiene.
- reduction stomach cancer
- improved nutrition increased resistance to infectious respiratory disease
- improved infant and child mortality rates
- improved life expectancy

Question 6

Improved working conditions, what is means how it affected health status?

Answer 6

foods often transmitted diseases from bacteria, parasites and viruses from poor hygiene and storage.
- reduction in stomach cancer
- improved nutrition increased resistance to infectious and respiratory disease
- improved life expectancy

Question 7

Improved working conditions, what it means, affect on health status

Answer 7

workplaces had to have better ventilation and toilets for workers, workers under 13 were prohibited.
- reduced industrial related deaths
- reduction in workplace injuries
- improved life expectancy

Question 8

Mass immunisation programs, what it means, the affect on health status

Answer 8

the government funded mass vaccinations in the 1930s after the scientific discovery.
- reduction in infectious diseases
- improved infant and child mortality rates
- improved life expectancy

Question 9

establishment of public health campaigns, what it means, affect on health status

Answer 9

health campaigns targeted the prevention of tuberculosis and STIs
- reduction in diseases
- improved infant and child mortality rates
- improved life expectancy

Question 10

More hygienic birthing practices, what it means, affect on health status

Answer 10

there were safe and hygienic birthing conditions with trained and registered midwives and doctors.
- reduction in maternal
and infant mortality

Question 11

Antenatal and infant welfare services were provided, what it means, affect on health status

Answer 11

services were established which supported mothers and babies
- reduced fertility rates
- reduced maternal mortality rates
- reduced infant mortality rates

Question 12

Quarantine laws, what it means, affect on health status

Answer 12

strict laws were implemented to prevent the arrival and transmission of infectious diseases from other countries.
- reduction in infectious diseases
- improved life expectancy