HED 044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moe Williams, School Hygiene, Syphilis
12 May 2020
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Historical ethical violations in health research have compromised community trust in public health. Clinical trial with the goal of following the natural progression of syphilis. They used 600 poor african american men in alabama as testers. 399 of these men tested positive for syphilis but they were not told they had syphilis. They were not prescribed penicillin when it was demonstrated that penicillin can be used to treat syphilis. Essentially they wanted to see how syphilis would affect the human body over a number of stages and denied them treatment to study such effects. National institutes of health (nih) largest biomedical research institute in the entire world. Constitutional responsibility and authority for population health. Centralized (managed centrally) or decentralized (delegated to county) Funding from local sales and property tax and some fees. Statistics, health education, immunizations, sanitation, inspections and. How do you define social justice in public health? school health and what not.
