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1500 BC: Hebrews spread Egyptian ideas through the biblical text of Leviticus

1000 BC- 400 BC: Greek culture emphasizes disease prevention and treatment

460 - 359 BC: Hippcrates also known as the "Father of Medicine" and the first Epidemiologist

400 BC: publishes the ‘On, Airs, Waters, and Places’ and links diseases and environment

Linh Nguyen

Jaimie Shing

The History of Public Health & Health Promotion

Early Public Health Efforts

(1500 BC - 500 BC)

Middle Ages

(476 - 1400)

U.S. First Health Revolution

(Late 1900 - 2000s)

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Age of Reason & Enlightenment : Birth of Modern Medicine

(1600 -1800)

1948: World Health Organization comes into effect

1949: Last case recorded of smallpox in the U.S.

1950: Most of the infectious diseases are in control in the U.S.

1953: Watson, Crick, and Franklin determine that DNA is a double-helix

1974: Health promotion begins

1977: Eradication of smallpox

1980: USDHEW creates a blueprint for health strategy, "Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives For A Nation" (Later turn into Healthy People 2020

1984: New York becomes first state to enact a mandatory seat belt use law (click it or ticket campaign)

1985: It is apparent that only half of the 1980 objectives will be reached by 1990

1986: The Global Programme on AIDS is created

1991: Poliovirus spread by wild vectors is eliminated in the western hemisphere

1997: Standard occupational classification policy review committee approved the creation of a new classification for the occupation of ‘health educator’

1998: US dep of commerce and labor formal recognized health educator as occupation

2000: Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is established to detect and combat international spread of outbreaks

2004: Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health is adopted

2010: Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign is launched

- Shifted away from Greek and Roman values

- Decline in hygiene and sanitation

- Beginning of public health tools such as isolation of diseased individuals

- Characterized by epidemics

1200 AD : 1,900 leper houses

1714-1788: Percival Pott observed an association between work as chimney sweep and scrotal cancer (first observation of an environmental carcinogen)

1788: Chimney Sweep Act Passed

1662: John Graunt publishes a comparative study of morbidity and mortality in human populations ‘living contagion’

1796: Edward Jenner is the first to vaccinate a human with cowpox

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Renaissance & Global Exploration

(1400-1600)

Roman Era

(500 BC - 500 AD)

The Great Sanitation Awakening

(1800 - Early 1900s)

- Diseases begin spreading by traders and explorers, killing 90% of indigenous people in the New World

1492: Last major epidemic = syphilis

1628: William Harvey publishes theories of circulation

-The connection between disease and poverty was made

- There was a shift to monitor community health status

- The Romans built extensive aquaduct and sewage systems

- More administration appeared (public baths, water supply, markets)

- Sewage systems could provide each citizen with 40 gallons of water a day

1902: Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health published by William Thompson Sedgwick and the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis was established in the US

1910: Abraham Flexner publishes report on the state of medical education in North America

1930: American Cancer Society was founded

1915: William Welch and Wickliffe Rose publish the seminal Institute of Hygiene, a report to the Rockefeller Foundation creating a blueprint for schools of public health in the U.S.

1918: Flu Pandemic sweeps the globe, infecting ⅓ of the world’s population

1842: Edwin Chadwick produces a landmark research “Survey into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes in Great Britain”

1848: General Board of Health created in England

1849: John Snow investigates cholera outbreak in London

1850: William Farr founded London Epidemiologic Society

1862: Louis Pasteur finds that germs causes many diseases

1888: First public health lab created

1869: State Board of Health created in U.S.

1883: Robert Koch identifies cause of Tuberculosis and creates Koch’s Postulates

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