HLTH 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quackery, Louis Pasteur, Smallpox
Document Summary
Early periods of addressing public health and its transformation. Pre-modern era : early humans; learning occurred by observation, as well as by trial and error; development of rules and taboos; believed in influence of evil spirits and gods. Age of enlightenment : 1700s were a period of revolution, industrialization and growth of cities, cities overcrowded, water supplies inadequate/unsanitary, problems with trash, workplaces unsafe; health education/promotion still not emerged as a profession; Miasmas : disease formed in filth and caused by noxious vapors. The nineteenth century: 1800s : overcrowding in cities, caused many public health problems - small pox, cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis reached high endemic levels; became known as the bacteriological period of public health. Lemuel shattuck"s health report (1850) led to the establishment of boards of health; The collection of vital statistics; the implementation of sanitary measures; research on disease; health education; controlling exposure to alcohol, smoke, adulterated foods and quack medicine.
