Medicine and Public Health in the 19th centuary

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  • Created on: 29-05-13 12:01
What factors helped Jenner?
Chance, changing attitudes to enquiry, he collected a lot of evidence from experiments, the government gave Jenner £30000, the government made it compulsory in 1852, communications had developed and Jenner was very determined.
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Why was there opposition to vaccinations?
Inoculators didn't want to lose their jobs, it didn't always work, people didn't have enough time, religious beliefs, Jenner was unknown, he couldn't explain how it worked, it was too revolutionary and beliefs the government shouldn't be involved.
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When was germ theory published?
1861
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What developments did Pasteur make in medicine?
Identifying bacteria, improved: hospitals, public health, doctor and nurses training and surgery, there was more investment in science, magic bullets, antiseptics, new vaccines and antibiotics.
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What factors helped Pasteur?
Jenner's vaccination, war, government, money, teamwork, industry and equipment.
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What developments did Florence Nightingale make?
Improved sanitation in hospitals, wrote Notes on nursing and Notes on hospitals, set up a nurse training school, helped design hospital wards and made nursing a more respectful job.
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What were other impacts on nursing and hospitals?
Germ theory, new technology, new knowledge, improved public health, improved engineering, government investing money and developments in surgery.
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What was public health like in early 1800's?
Cramped living, pollution, dirty water, dirty streets and no proper sewage system,
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Why hadn't public health improved in the early 1800's?
Laissez-faire attitudes, towns grew to quickly, germ theory wasn't published yet, fresh water was hard to get, hadn't been brought to the governments attention, ordinary people didn't have the vote and people were very poor.
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What factors helped to improve public health in the late 1800's?
Edwin Chadwick, William Farr, John Snow, Germ Theory, Bazzelgette, the great stink, cholera and ordinary people got the vote.
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