Public Health Dbq

In public health many strategies were put in place to increase someone’s life span, prevent illness and encourage healthy things. They had many roles within these strategies, starting with keeping a record of the health status of the population. They did this because they could then see what the overall health was and then they would prevent life threatening diseasing from coming out. This means they would be able to inform people with the problems that could occur. An example of this would have been the high levels of obesity. Another role from that was figuring out the health needs that the population was in need of. When recording the health status of the population they are able to see any patterns that are occurring, once they see a pattern
This included the growing concerns about unclean water being distributed, poor housing conditions and all the air pollution. All of these problems were because of the growing cities and the industrialisation. In 1842, a member of the Sanitary Movement called Edwin Chadwick wrote a report disusing these issues. This report was about how it affects the environment, poverty of people and the ill health. Six years later, in 1848 the report was passed. This was the National Public Health Act. This act created a Central Board of Health Corporations, which was in charge of drainage and water
The changes started in 1918, when the British soldiers were coming back from war, Lloyd George made the ‘homes fit for heroes’. They had a target to build half a million houses for the soldiers before they came back by 1933. Then in 1919 the Ministry of Health was built. This was made because it was meant to take care of diseases, health care and sanitation. Not only that, they had to make sure that nurses, doctors and dentists were trained. Also in 1921, all local authorities we made to have tuberculosis sanitary