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A Brief History of Public Health

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  • Page 1
  • Learning Objectives
  • Page 2
  • Early Concepts of Disease
  • Hunter-Gatherers
  • Mythology, Superstition, and Religion
  • The Agricultural Revolution
  • The Hippocratic Corpus
  • The Bubonic Plague (1347-1700s)
  • Cause of the Plague and Strategies for Prevention
  • Quarantine and Isolation
  • Page 3
  • Ideas About Health
  • Girolamo Fracastoro (1546))
  • John Graunt - The Bills of Mortality (1662)
  • Anton van Leeuwenhouk (1670s)
  • John Pringle and "Jail Fever" (1740s)
  • James Lind and Scurvy (1754)
  • Francois Broussais & Pierre Louis (1832)
  • Page 4
  • The Industrial Revolution
  • Living Conditions in England
  • Page 5
  • The Enlightenment (1700-1850)
  • Ignaz Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1840s)
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  • John Snow - The Father of Epidemiology
  • Page 7
  • The Sanitary Idea (1850-1875)
  • Louis Pasteur (late 1800)
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  • Public Health in the United States
  • The 1700s
  • The 1800s
  • The 1900s
  • Page 9
  • Major Public Health Achievements during the 20th Century
  • What is Public Health?

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