In this book, we examine the practical uses of history, something considered in detail in thefi nal chapter of the book as well as in each topic chapter. But please bear in mind that all health issues and responses have their history, which may well have current significance both nationally and internationally.
In this book, ‘public health’ covers not just conventional historical meanings of the term, such as the nineteenth-century advances in water and sanitation or the early twentieth-century enthusiasm for health education and education for mothers. It also addresses health systems and service development, the rise of health professions and the role of gender in health and medicine. We also focus on a number of case studies– particular diseases or sets of activities (e.g. drug use) that have come to be seen within a public health framework in recent times.
In this book, ‘public health’ covers not just conventional historical meanings of the term, such as the nineteenth-century advances in water and sanitation or the early twentieth-century enthusiasm for health education and education for mothers. It also addresses health systems and service development, the rise of health professions and the role of gender in health and medicine. We also focus on a number of case studies– particular diseases or sets of activities (e.g. drug use) that have come to be seen within a public health framework in recent times.
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