Origins of public health
Public health promotes strategies in multiple different ways, they focus improving
the health of the population and preventing diseases in areas by promoting good
health strategies and promoting good healthy lifestyles. This has resulted in
improvements in the health of the population and people benefiting from the
health promotions put in place. For example, since there has been adverts about
how bad smoking is for your health smoking rates have decreased over the years.
This have also done this by going to schools and having health talks about how
drinking and smoking it bad for you and putting pictures of the effects that
smoking has on your body on the boxes of cigarettes.
Another health strategy is by promoting health protection and strategies for
disease prevention such as promoting vaccinations for children. Parents are
encouraged to ensure that their children receive vaccinations at a young age to
prevent diseases like measles, mumps and rubella. In schools there are also
multiple vaccinations that children receive such as a flu jab, meningitis, tetanus
and girls receive cervix cancer vaccinations. This is a good way to prevent diseases
as they will have the vaccination at a young age
, The work of John Snow
John Snow was a British physician and is one of the discoverers of epidemiology
for his works towards finding the origin of cholera during an outbreak in 1854. At
the age of fourteen he was an apprentice to a surgeon. Then at the age of twenty-
six he moved the London to begin his career in the medical field. He joined the
Royal College pf Surgeons in 1838 and then went on to graduate in 1844. In 1850
he began his career in physiology when he joined the Royal College of Physicians.
(BBC History 2012)
During the time of the cholera outburst it was believed cholera entered the body
through bad air. However, John Snow did not believe this bad air theory and
created the theory cholera entered the body through the mouth. Therefore, he
released his own hypothesis that cholera was spread through water in 1849 and
proved his hypothesis to be correct in 1854. He done this as there was a cholera
outbreak in Broad Street in London, he went to investigated and found the
common area of where people were suffering with the disease. As a result, he
identified that a public water pump used by many was the source of the cholera,
so he had the pump removed and the cholera started to disappear. However, his
theory was not fully believed until ten years later in the 1860s.
Public health promotes strategies in multiple different ways, they focus improving
the health of the population and preventing diseases in areas by promoting good
health strategies and promoting good healthy lifestyles. This has resulted in
improvements in the health of the population and people benefiting from the
health promotions put in place. For example, since there has been adverts about
how bad smoking is for your health smoking rates have decreased over the years.
This have also done this by going to schools and having health talks about how
drinking and smoking it bad for you and putting pictures of the effects that
smoking has on your body on the boxes of cigarettes.
Another health strategy is by promoting health protection and strategies for
disease prevention such as promoting vaccinations for children. Parents are
encouraged to ensure that their children receive vaccinations at a young age to
prevent diseases like measles, mumps and rubella. In schools there are also
multiple vaccinations that children receive such as a flu jab, meningitis, tetanus
and girls receive cervix cancer vaccinations. This is a good way to prevent diseases
as they will have the vaccination at a young age
, The work of John Snow
John Snow was a British physician and is one of the discoverers of epidemiology
for his works towards finding the origin of cholera during an outbreak in 1854. At
the age of fourteen he was an apprentice to a surgeon. Then at the age of twenty-
six he moved the London to begin his career in the medical field. He joined the
Royal College pf Surgeons in 1838 and then went on to graduate in 1844. In 1850
he began his career in physiology when he joined the Royal College of Physicians.
(BBC History 2012)
During the time of the cholera outburst it was believed cholera entered the body
through bad air. However, John Snow did not believe this bad air theory and
created the theory cholera entered the body through the mouth. Therefore, he
released his own hypothesis that cholera was spread through water in 1849 and
proved his hypothesis to be correct in 1854. He done this as there was a cholera
outbreak in Broad Street in London, he went to investigated and found the
common area of where people were suffering with the disease. As a result, he
identified that a public water pump used by many was the source of the cholera,
so he had the pump removed and the cholera started to disappear. However, his
theory was not fully believed until ten years later in the 1860s.
