I&d History Of Epidemiology And Public Health

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What is epidemiology?

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The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health

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What is nosology?

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The classification of disease

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What is the zymotic theory of disease?

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Proposed that products of organic decomposition entered body via respiratory tract (obsolete from 1900)

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Key contribution of Bentham

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'Greatest happiness of the greatest number'
'Welfare through workhouses'

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Key contribution of Chadwick

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Sanitary reformer
Illustrations of filth and degradation among lower classes
^ Connected to prevalence of disease and high mortality due to poor sanitary provisions, drainage and water supply (remember 'pump' image with death rate near it- that was Snow)

Bequest UCL to extend education in hygiene!

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Key contribution of Farr

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Repots on cholera epidemics
Statistical nosology, classification of diseases
Produced life tables to look at mortality

Zymotic theory of disease

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Key contribution of Nightingale

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Observations in army hospitals and out mortality down to their poor condition

Wrote on matters affecting health

Used graphics in arguments

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Key contribution of Snow

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Cholera 'Broad Street pump'

Mapped cholera deaths

Discovered cholera waterborne - not accepted by peers

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Key contribution of Klein

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Epidemiology of dental caries, importance of fluoride,

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What is miasma theory?

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The idea that a vapour (masima) emanated from filth, disease and death. Inhalation lead to illness and death (obsolete by 1900)