Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious disease, water supply and sewage ...
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen’s classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contrib...
History of Public Health China England Roman By Roman times, it was well understood that proper diversion of human waste was a necessary tenet of public health in urban areas. The Chinese devel oped the practice of variolation following a smallpox epidemic around 1000 BC. The science of epidem...
A History of Public Health Chapter 2. Expanding the Concept of Public Health Chapter 3. Measuring, Monitoring, and Evaluating the Health of a Population Chapter 4. Communicable Diseases Chapter 5. Non-Communicable Diseases and Conditions Chapter 6. Family Health Chapter 7. Special Community Health ...
Social, medical, and public health reform originated largely in England, but took place almost simultaneously throughout much of Western Europe and the United States. A combination of several essential factors made possible these reforms, collectively known as the sanitary revolution. The same essential...
Journal of the Air & Waste Management AssociationBrimblecombe, P., and C. Bowler. 1992 . The history of air pollution in York, England. J. Air Waste Manage. Assoc . 42(12): 1562–66.Brimblecombe, P., and C. Bowler. 1992. The history of air pollution in York, England. J. Air...
The 1880 Elementary Education Act made school attendance compulsory for all children in England and Wales up to the age of ten. A few months before it passed, Nature appealed to William Harcourt — who would become British home secretary that year — to make the teaching of science a ...
Public Health Informatics & Information Systems. 2nd ed. London, England: Springer-Verlag; 2014: 19-36.Lumpkin JR, Magnuson JA. History and significance of in- formation systems and public health. In: Magnuson JA, Paul C, eds. Public Health Informatics & Information Systems. 2nd ed. London...
Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000 This is a major new, five-year project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, and led by co-PIs Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hila
We were both working on projects related to this: I was working on a project on intelligence testing and Tomas was working on digital prison assessments and modes of categorization in prisons in England and Wales. And we wanted to think together about this issue, connecting stories of the ...