public health/Old public health - incentives an initiatives

What Public health is concerned with

it is concerned with the organisation and collective effort to improve the health status of the entire population

What public health refers to

Refers particularly to the ways in which governments monitor, regulate, and promote health status and prevent disease

What is old public health

It was government interventions that aimed to clean up the physical environment to reduce the risk of infectious diseases

Old public health interventions (9)

• Clean drinking water

• Sewage systems and improved sanitation

• improved food and nutrition

• Mass immunisation program

• more hygienic birthing practices

• Anenatal and infant welfare services

• Quarantine laws

• Better quality housing and fewer slums

• Improved working conditions

Clean drinking water

Government built pipes that provide people with safe water to drink, reduced infectious diseases

Sewage systems and improved sanitation

Government built sewage systems to keep human waste separate from water supplies, garbage & waste removed from the streets, reduced infectious diseases

Improved food and nutrition

The pure food act (1905) brought about improvements in the standards of food, school milk program provided milk for school children

Why was there a pure food act in 1905

b/c foods often transmitted diseases from bacteria, parasites, toxins & viruses from poor hygiene & storage - act led to reduction in stomach cancer & improved nutrition

Mass immunisation program

Government funded mass vaccinations for everyone in Australia (free vaccinations)

More hygienic birthing practices

Government sets and funds more safe and hygienic birthing conditions with trained and registered midwives and doctors

Antenatal and infant wellfare services

the government established antenatal and infant wellfare services which supported mothers and babies

Quarantine laws

Introduced by the government, which prevented the arrival & transmission of infectious diseases from other countries

Quality housing & fewer slums

laws, by government, required all houses to be built with drains and ventilation

Improved working conditions

Work places must have toilets and ventilation, age restrictions of workers (no one under the age of 13), & workplace safety regulations