HK 44500 Chapter 2: historical development
14 Feb 2019
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In relation to time, season, place, environmental conditions, and disease control. First to develop and calculate life tables and life expectancy. Disease among workers: violent and irregular motions and unnatural postures, harmful materials workers handled. Clinical observations, experimental designs, population changes over time. Link between acquiring cowpox and not getting smallpox. First to report on sanitation and public health problems: state local boards, vital statistics. High levels of deaths in mothers with childbed fever. Louis pasteur: cause of rabies, discovered vaccine for anthrax. Robert koch: first photo of microbes, steam sterilization. Founder and first president of american red cross. Casimir funk: invented vitamin, water-soluble, fat-soluble. Morbidity statistics (5 general groups: reports, hospital and clinical records, insurance and industrial establishment, illness surveys, records of incidence. First woman to faculty of harvard medical school. First woman to become president of american heart association. Aim: to identify risk factor that contribute to cardiovascular disease.
