Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Seat Belt Legislation, Jeremy Bentham, World Health Organization
9 Feb 2018
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Health policy lecture 12: balancing individual/communal rights. Short life span-mainly because not having enough food: not because of disease. Still people were sick and dying: mythology, superstition, religion. Societies were more focused on health of the whole group. People were aware of individual health: not about the whole community, more about individuals. Bubonic plague (1347-1700: risk factors, quarantine and isolation, risk factors associated with any disease. Started thinking about both communal and individual together. Industrial revolution (1750-1900: mass migration to cities, cramped work areas with poor ventilation, trauma from machinery, toxic exposure to heavy metals, dust and solvents. Individual and communal health: have to help both individual and the community. The enlightenment was a period that saw an embrace of democracy, citizenship, reason, rationality, and the social value of intelligence (the value of information gathering) These ideas provided important underpinnings for public health.
