Pioneers in public health : lessons from history
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Pioneers in public health : lessons from history
(Routledge focus on environmental health)(Routledge focus)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
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  Okinawa
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place. However despite a growing interest in how we understand history to inform current evidence-based practice, there is no book focusing on our progressive pioneers in public health and environmental health.
This book seeks to fill that gap. It examines carefully selected public and environmental health pioneers who made a real difference to the UK's health, some with international influence. Many of these pioneers were criticised in their life-times, yet they had the strength of character to know what they were doing was fundamentally right and persevered, often against many odds. Including chapters on:
Thomas Fresh
John Snow
Duncan of Liverpool
Margaret McMillan
George Cadbury
Christopher Addison
Margery Spring Rice and others.
This book will help readers place pioneers in a wider context and to make more sense of their academic and practitioner work today; how evidence (and what was historically understood by it) underpins modern day practice; and how these visionary pioneers developed their ideas into practice, some not fully appreciated until after their own deaths. Pioneers in Public Health sets the tone for a renewed focus on research into evidence-based public and environmental health, which has become subject of growing international interest in recent years.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction, Jill Stewart Chapter 2 Thomas Fresh: the First Environmental Health Practitioner, Norman Parkinson Chapter 3 Sir John Simon: A role model for public health practice? Alan Page Chapter 4 John Snow: a pioneer in epidemiology, Hugh Thomas Chapter 5 Sir Joseph Bazalgette: a man of persistence and vision, Alan Page Chapter 6 George Smith of Coalville ('the Children's Friend'): campaigner for factory and canal boats legislation, Susan Lammin Chapter 7 Duncan of Liverpool: The first Medical Officer of Health, Stephen Battersby Chapter 8 Margaret McMillan: advocate and practitioner of improvements in children's health, Susan Lammin Chapter 9 George Cadbury and Corporate Social Responsibility: Working conditions, housing, education and food policy, Zena Lynch and Surindar Dhesi Chapter 10 Charles Booth's Inquiry
- Poverty, Poor Housing and Legacies for Environmental Health, Matthew Clough Chapter 11 Christopher Addison: health visionary, man of war, Parliamentarian and practical pioneer, William Hatchett Chapter 12 Margery Spring Rice: throwing light on hidden misery, Deirdre Mason Chapter 13 Berthold Lubtekin: 'Nothing is too good for ordinary people', Ellis Turner Chapter 14 Conclusions, Jill Stewart
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