Barriers to Public Health
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- Created on: 21-04-13 17:03
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- Barriers to Public Health
- Laissez faire
- Government belief
- Government should keep out of people's affairs
- Believed by The Times
- This belief meant that PH and PL reform was blocked
- Lack of legislation
- Government committed to laissez faire
- Only Private Acts avaible
- Only applied for certain areas
- Often permissive
- Only had to please upper and middle classes, not working class
- Vested interests
- Companies stopping legislation because it will block their profits
- For example, water companies did not want PH reform on water because it mean reducing their profits
- Improvement Commissionsin some towns had vested interests, which also made improvementslimited
- Different theories of the cause of the disease
- Miasma Theory
- Disease caused by rotting matter in the air
- Popular theory, believed by most
- Endorsed by Edwin Chadwick- "All smell is disease"
- Germ Theory
- Disease caused by germs
- Louis Pasteur
- No one believed him
- Later proved right by Dr. Robert Koch
- Contagion Theory
- Diseases spread by those by who had the disease
- Therefore, quarantine was the answer to diasease
- Miasma Theory
- Laissez faire
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