PS282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Soho, Mental Disorder, Cholera
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Cholera epidemic the people who died had gotten their water from the broad street pump. Outbreak in 1832 killed more than 55,000 people in great britain. Snow developed a new approach to thinking about epidemics. Map of london, spoke to families that had outbreak, found that almost all. Introduction: prevention and promotion are all around you. The majority of prevention work was not created by psychologists, but by teachers, social workers, police who implemented specific behaviours. Common sense concept that derives from latin work meaning to anticipate or before something to come. The idea that prevention concepts could be systematically applied to mental disorders has a very recent history. George albee 1959 looked at # of americans who could benefit from mental health counseling each year trained to provide all the needed mental health services for the population. Another issue raised by albee concerns how scarce treatment resources are distributed.