PH 381: A Brief History of Public Health
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Industrialization come with the - ✔✔development of public health and
epidemiology
chronic diseases emerged - ✔✔once public health practice was established
the local and state departments were not - ✔✔responsive as chronic
diseases were emerging
public health history, the american colonies 1600-1800 - ✔✔-frequently
confronted by hunger, malnutrition, and scurvy
-population aggregation results in epidemics of infectious diseases like
smallpox (17th century), yellow fever (18th century) and cholera (19th
century) diphtheria, measles, and typhoid fever
-smallpox estimated to decrease American Indian population by 50-70%
-high levels of food insecurity with significant implications for health,
morbidity, and mortality
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, eradication - ✔✔when disease is gone from the world
elimination - ✔✔when a disease is gone from a community
smallpox - ✔✔-epidemic in colonial american with a high mortality and
morbidity
-extremely high mortality rate in American Indian populations
-early recognition of epidemic potential; colonist intentionally infect native
populations
-early experimentation by cotton mather and others on variolation
-not eradicated from the world
variolation - ✔✔taking an antigen of interest and poking it into the skin
(smallpox)
public health in the 18th and 19th centuries - ✔✔-initial public health
activities centered on ports and large cities
-large responsible for the social elite
--more of a social enterprise than a disease prevention enterprise
--more of a social reform movement, not a scientific based movement
-many theories of disease causation existed
-public health efforts organized in England, France, and Germany before
the U.S.
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Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Solved
Industrialization come with the - ✔✔development of public health and
epidemiology
chronic diseases emerged - ✔✔once public health practice was established
the local and state departments were not - ✔✔responsive as chronic
diseases were emerging
public health history, the american colonies 1600-1800 - ✔✔-frequently
confronted by hunger, malnutrition, and scurvy
-population aggregation results in epidemics of infectious diseases like
smallpox (17th century), yellow fever (18th century) and cholera (19th
century) diphtheria, measles, and typhoid fever
-smallpox estimated to decrease American Indian population by 50-70%
-high levels of food insecurity with significant implications for health,
morbidity, and mortality
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, eradication - ✔✔when disease is gone from the world
elimination - ✔✔when a disease is gone from a community
smallpox - ✔✔-epidemic in colonial american with a high mortality and
morbidity
-extremely high mortality rate in American Indian populations
-early recognition of epidemic potential; colonist intentionally infect native
populations
-early experimentation by cotton mather and others on variolation
-not eradicated from the world
variolation - ✔✔taking an antigen of interest and poking it into the skin
(smallpox)
public health in the 18th and 19th centuries - ✔✔-initial public health
activities centered on ports and large cities
-large responsible for the social elite
--more of a social enterprise than a disease prevention enterprise
--more of a social reform movement, not a scientific based movement
-many theories of disease causation existed
-public health efforts organized in England, France, and Germany before
the U.S.
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
