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Public Health Flashcards

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How did Egyptians stay clean?

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Bathed
Shaved heads
Toilet changed clothes regularly

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Why was being nomadic good for public health?

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You didn’t need to worry about it because you could leave

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What public health did the Greeks have?

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Washed
Clean skin/hair/ teeth
Little public health

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Why did Romans want good public health?

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They needed healthy army to control empire and merchants to keep empire fed and successful

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In roman times how was fresh water carried from springs to towns?

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Pipes and aqueducts

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In roman times where was fresh water sent?

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Public fountains, public baths, sewers, private homes, public latrines

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What was ‘laissez faire’?

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Leave it alone

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In the Middle Ages what did people believe being clean showed?

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You were close to God

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In the Middle Ages want were governments more concerned with?

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Making laws about trade

Keeping law and order

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9
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In the Middle Ages what made public health hard?

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Population grew quickly

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Why couldn’t the people in Middle Ages get rid of waste?

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Didn’t know how

Overwhelmed by it

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Did people in Middle Ages have toilets? What did this mean?

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No, waste chucked onto streets

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What were the sewers and drains like in Middle Ages?

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Too small

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What waste was on the streets?

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Animals
Animal poo
Waste from fishmongers and butchers
Chemicals from dyeing clothes and leather

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What was the problem with the first public toilets in Middle Ages?

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Had to be emptied by hand

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What were the people called who cleaned out privies and the street of filth?

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Gong farmers

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What was the place in the Middle Ages where all the butchers had to be?

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The shambles

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What happened in 1350?

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Butchers banned from being inside the walls of London

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What did the government do in the Middle Ages to make sure the meat butchers sold was fit to eat?

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Banned butchers from selling in the dark

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When was the Black Death?

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1348-52

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What fraction of the population did the Black Death kill?

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1/3

Half the population of London

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What rules were brought in after the Black Death 1348-51?

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Fine for illegally dumping waste

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22
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What was it healthier to drink in Middle Ages?

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Wine and beer

23
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What did people think caused Black Death?

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Miasma- bad air

24
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What was the difference between the pneumonic plague and the bubonic plague?

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Pneumonic was airborne

Bubonic was from bites

25
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In the Middle Ages how did war affect public health?

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Disease followed armies

26
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What was the Islamic empire like in the Middle Ages?

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Had piped water
Public baths
Hospitals

27
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When was the Great Plague?

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1665

28
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What did people have to do if they had the great plague?

A

Red crosses on doors
Quarantine
‘God have mercy on us’ written
Plague pits- mass graves

29
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What did the Great Fire of London do?

A

Sterilised London of Great Plague

30
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When was the Great Fire of London?

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1666

31
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What did the council do to animals at the time of Great Plague?

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Killed them

32
Q

What was life expectancy like in 1842?

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Aged 20

33
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When did cholera reach Britain?

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1831

34
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When was cholera an epidemic?

A

1832

35
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Who wrote the ‘report on sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain’? When was it published?

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Chadwick, 1842

36
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When was the first public health act?

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1848

37
Q

When was the link between contaminated water and cholera discovered? Who by?

A

1854, snow

38
Q

What acts were brought in in 1875?

A

Public health act

Artisans dwelling act

39
Q

What did the Boer war and ww1 do?

A

Showed a large percentage of population were unfit for military service
Google health, good army

40
Q

What did labour do to public health?

A

Brought in acts and rules

41
Q

When were frees school meals brought in?

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1906

42
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When was the school medical inspection brought in?

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1907

43
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What did labour bring in in 1909?

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Old age pension act
Labour exchanges (job centres)
44
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When was the national insurance act?

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1911

45
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What did the ministry of health promise in 1919?

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A land fit for heroes

46
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What did ww2 do to promote social change?

A

Evacuation and mass armies showed health to others

47
Q

When was the emergency medical service brought in?

A

1940

48
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What did the emergency medical service do?

A

Free emergency treatment to air raid casualties

49
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When was the ‘Beveridge report’ published?

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1942

50
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When did the NHS come in?

A

1948

51
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Who introduced the NHS?

A

Bevan

52
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What happened to the national insurance in 1958? Why?

A

Made compulsory, to pay for NHS

53
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When was WHO set up?

A

1948

54
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What did WHO do?

A

Increased children vaccinated worldwide

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