old public health

Question 1

old public health

Answer 1

government actions that focused on changing the physical environment to prevent the spread of disease such as providing safe water, sanitation and sewage disposal, improved housing conditions and better work conditions

Question 2

inititives associated with old public health

Answer 2

• improved water and sanitation
• mass immunisation programs
• provision of antenatal and infanct welfare services
• more hygienic birthing practices
• safer working conditions
• introduction of quarantine laws
• better quality food and nutrition
• better quality housing and fewer slums

Question 3

clean drinking water was provided

how it affects health outcomes

Answer 3

• reduced rates of infectious diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera
• improved infant and child mortality rates
• improved life expectancy

people were provided with safe water to drink

Question 4

Sewage systems were established and sanitation was improved

Answer 4

• Infectious diseases such as gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, cholera and hepatitis were reduced
• Improved infant and child mortality rates
• Improved life expectancy

kept human wastes separated from water + garbage removed off the streets

Question 5

Better-quality housing and the elimination of housing slums

Answer 5

• Reduced deaths from respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, influenza and infectious diseases such as typhoid, cholera and diarrhoea
• Improved infant and child mortality rates
• Improved life expectancy

drains + sewage system better ventilation, less overcrowding + no slums

Question 6

improved food and nutrition

Answer 6

• Reduction in stomach cancer
• Improved nutrition increased resistance to infectious and respiratory diseases
• Improved infant and child mortality rates
• Improved life expectancy

improved food standards, important fruit+veg, refrigeration, school milk

Question 7

improved working conditions

Answer 7

• Reduced industrial-related child deaths
• These actions contributed to a reduction in workplace injuries.
• Improved life expectancy

ventilation+toilets, minimum working age +wage, protected dangerous jobs

Question 8

establishment of public health campaigns

Answer 8

• reduction in infectious diseases such as TB and venereal disease
• Improved infant and child mortality rates
• Improved life expectancy

Question 8

mass immunisation programs

Answer 8

• reductions from infectious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B and COVID-19
• Improved infant and child mortality rates
• Improved life expectancy

the government funded vaccination programs for many diseases since 1930s