HLST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Louis Pasteur, Contagious Disease, Public Health
23 Nov 2017
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European settlement in canada: health problems of a nutritional nature. British colonial period: rudimentary hospitals, doctors in short supply, quarantine measures, central board of health. Road to pinnacle of public health: step 1. Confederation: problems: epidemic of communicable diseases, major control response: quarantine. Road to pinnacle of public health: step 2. Mid to late 19th century: understanding of disease causation. Germ theory and bacteriology: robert koch, louis pasteur. Road to pinnacle of public health: step 3: industrial revolution in britain. Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of great. English public health act (1875: all existing provinces at that time passed a public health act. Road to pinnacle of public health: step 4: early 20th century, development of specific, regulatory measures, set of biological products. Early 1920s: a quick overview: full time public health departments, urban municipalities: yes, rural areas: no, health units, full-time community health workers.
