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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
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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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- 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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