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22 Cards in this Set
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When was the archeological findings provide evidence of sewage of disposal and written medical prescription? |
Prior to 2000 B.C. (Ancient Societies, before 500 B.C.) |
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Perhaps the earliest written record of public health was the _____________; included laws of physicians and health practices |
Circa 1900 B.C. (Code of Hammurabi) |
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In what year was this book written, where it includes guidelines for personal cleanliness and sanitation? |
Circa 1500 B.C. (Bible's Book of Leviticus) |
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In this era it is evident that greek men participated in games of strength and skills and swam in public facilities |
Fifth and sixth B.C. (Classical cutures, 500 B.C. to 500 C.E.) |
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Who were involved in the practice of community sanitation, and what does it involves? |
Greeks (involved in obtaining water f om dar away sources not just local wells) |
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Who improved the community sanitation of Greeks? And what did they created? |
Romans (created aqueducts, sewer system, refuse removal, and street cleaning and repair; created hospitals as infirmaries for slaves) |
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Why did Christians created hospitals? |
Hospitals as benevolent charitable organizations |
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What happened in the A.D. 476? |
Roman Empire fell and most public health activities ceased |
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When was the Dark Ages, and what happened here? |
A.D. 500-1000 (growing revulsion for roman materialism and a growth of spirituality) |
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Why is it considered as the spiritual era of public health? |
Health problems were considered to hace both spiritual causes and spiritual solutions |
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Because it is the spiritual era, it is also the time that they failed to take into account the physical and biological environment, what happened in this era? |
The causation of communicable disease resulted in many unrelenting epidemics in which millions suffered and died |
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Deadliest epidemics, where 25 million was killed, half of population in London and some parts of France, only 1 in 10 survived) |
"Black Death" (A.D. 543 and 1348) |
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More than 1900 leper houses |
A.D. 1200 |
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Other epidemics of period |
Smallpox, diphtheria, measles, influenza, tuberculosis, anthrax and trachoma |
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The last epidemic of the period |
A.D. 1492, Syphilis |
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Renaissance and exploration |
1500-1700 |
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Rebirth of thinking about the _______ of world and ________ |
Nature, humankind |
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The term malaria means_____? |
Bad air, direct reference to humid or swampy air (in this era it was believe that disease was caused by environmental factors and not spiritual) |
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Observations of ill led to more accurate descriptions of symptoms and outcomes of diseases; observations led to first recognition of ______,________,_______, and _______ as distinct and separate diseases. |
Whooping cough, typhus, scarlet fever, and Malaria |
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In what year did John Graunt published his observations in the Bills of Mortality, and is the beginning of? |
1662, beginning of vital statistics |
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Epidemics still rampant, killed 68,596 , 15% of population in London in what year |
1665, eg. Smallpox, malaria, plague |
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TRUE OR FALSE Explorers, conquerors and merchants and their crews spread diseases to colonists and indigenous people throughout the Old World. |
False, it's not the Old World but New World |
