Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing; she revolutionised and influenced the maintenance of hospitals after she witnessed the potentially grotesque state of them after the war. She ensured that hospitals were kept spotlessly clean and provided the most hygienically benefiting conditions, for example lots of windows to let in light, and implemented certain rules such as a having one patient per bed. These implementations were conducted in order to improve hygiene and prevent the spread of bacteria. This was able to contribute to the shaping of British society as it improved the provided health care at the time, and therefore resulting in healthier and happier inhabitants. The first source in which to justify this given statement is of primary nature and dates back to 1860 when it was first published.
As the method of quarantine had worked previously, elements of this are evident in the response to the outbreak of Cholera in the nineteenth century with quarantine of passengers on ships. The travellers were inspected and if suspected resulted in the isolation of infected persons in special hospitals (Brunton, 2009, pg 194). The theory was that if disease spread through contagion then it could be controlled through quarantine. Although favoured by some, it was rejected by others as this restricted trade. Unlike the plague, the Cholera epidemic
Florence Nightingale Fighting Cholera in Haiti What is the goal of nursing? Well, according to Florence Nightingale, one of the most revolutionary theorists in nursing history, it is “to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him” (Nightingale, 1860). There are many new and advance technological procedures available in homes and health care environments to help treat patients, and for them to recover quickly. However, sometimes it is the simple health practices that are able to keep individuals at their best possible state. Florence Nightingale develops an understanding that the environment directly affects a patient’s wellbeing over 100 years ago; her observations are still relevant in today’s healthcare environments.
degree in 1869 from the University of Virginia and spending several years working in the field of public health in New York City, Reed joined the Army Medical Department (1875). In 1898, he headed a board that identified typhoid fever as the cause of much sickness and death at the camps where troops gathered to train for the Spanish‐American War. By establishing human waste as the source of contamination, the board made possible effective public health measures to prevent future epidemics. When, in 1900, another board headed by Reed proved that yellow fever, much dreaded by soldiers sent to Cuba, was carried by a mosquito and identified the specific mosquito, successful efforts to reduce this threat to public health also became possible. Reed's accomplishments resulted not only from his personal skills as a research scientist but from the disciplined world in which he worked: medical officers were often better able than their civilian counterparts to conduct the studies necessary to identify both major diseases that threatened public health and the means by which they spread in civilian and military communities alike.
The Egyptians developed a theory of physiology that saw the heart as the centre of a system of ‘channels'. They failed, though, to realise that the different tubes (veins, intestines, lungs etc) had specific purposes. Their system is called the Channel Theory. Having observed the damage done to farmers' fields when an irrigation channel became blocked, the Egyptians developed the idea that disease occurred when an evil spirit had possessed you it blocked one of the body's 'channels'. This was a crucial breakthrough in the history of medicine, because it led doctors to
However I know from my own knowledge that the 19th century was a time of massive heath reforms in Britton. With this in mind I can start to see different aspects of the three sources, which might make them agree that cholera epidemics cause people to question public heath. Source 13, does not agree or disagree with the question, which does not make the source very useful. However there is a small passage about the effect that Cholera had at the very end of the source, it does say that Cholera got “attention from everyone, from all shades and all forms of opinion.” I know that in the early 19th century the government relied on the middle class for money and votes to stay in parliament. So if people from “all shades” where suddenly worried about Cholera then the government would have to start putting work into finding out the cause of Cholera.
The Nineteenth Century Timeline The First National Public Health Act 1848 During the ninteenth century industrialisation and the rapid growth of cities led to concerns about envionmnet problems such as poor housing, unclean water supplies, bad air and the impact of all these problems had on the health of the working population. Edwin Chadwick the member of the sanitary movement was an active campaigner on most public health issues including poor housing and working conditions.Chadwick presents an inquiry report to the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population to British Parliament, 1842 contained a mass of evidence linking environmental factor, poverty and ill health. to administer all sanitary matters it was recommended that establishment
Melissa Thorne Unit 20 / Task 1 P1/P2 Public health problems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had major concerns. Growing towns in Britain within the nineteenth century were characterised by overcrowding, poor housing, disease and unhealthy drinking water. For example, Edwin Chadwick, in 1842, argued that disease was one of the main causes of poverty, if not the main cause altogether. Six years later, the government were shoved into a corner after a cholera epidemic hit the country, causing them to do something about the prevention of disease – through public and individual health measures. Through public measures, the government tried to introduce public sanitation measures, like the Romans had when miasmas were thought to create illness and disease.
Cholera is one of the greatest pandemics faced by human race. The severity of the disease, morbidity, and mortality caused by cholera is comparable to AIDS/HIV in modern times (Newsom, 2006). At the time of the pandemic, in Victorian England, the plausible cause to this pandemic was rather difficult to find. The paper will indulge in describing the influence of scientific and non-scientific theories on the pandemic of cholera in mid-nineteenth century and the obstacles faced by the scientist who had discovered the solution to the problem. The non-scientific theories revolved around the concept of moral degeneracy and moral environmentalism (Gilbert, 2000).
Health Policy Determinants Timeline HCS/550 October 12, 2014 Health Policy Determinants Timeline American’s have recognized the US health care system as broken and fragmented. With an estimated 48 million uninsured people and approximately $2.5 trillion spent on health care yearly, reform was overdue. The concept of health care reform was not new. New legislation had been attempted without success. “During the 2008 US presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama (US Senator, D-IL) campaigned for the need to reform the American health care system, stating that the cost of health care was a threat to our economy and that health care should be a right for every American”("History of the," 2011).