[PBH 317] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (39 pages long)
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Incorporated into the norms of the religious and cultural societies: circumcision to reduce stds, monogamy (one partner that you are with) to control stds, dietar(cid:455) restri(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s su(cid:272)h as hi(cid:374)dus do(cid:374)"t eat (cid:271)eef. Edward jenner hypothesized the milk maids got cowpox: did experiments of vaccinating and introduced the public health intervention of vaccines. Hygiene movement (1840s 1870s: father of epidemiology = john snow. Famous for looking at a cholera epidemic that was linked to contaminated water. Mapped where illnesses were occurring and where people who were getting infected got all the water from a certain well. Looked at childbed fever and found it could be controlled by hand washing. Found if the midwife delivered the baby than the physician, there would be a smaller rate of childbed fever: vital statistics. Contagion control (1880-1940s: louis pasteur developed the anthrax vaccine, sanitation and hygiene. Population shift into urban areas led to repeated disease outbreaks.
