Rachel's Public Health Blog
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Abstract and Intro
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5F4oxJVVIoIVkVHd3BMZGIyZW8
I almost forgot to upload this! Final draft
I almost forgot to upload this! Final draft
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Extra credit writing center
I wanted to visit the writing center one more time to work on the final literature review and go through the the final rubric.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Chapter 7 annotation
Berridge,
Virginia. (2016). Public Health: A Very
Short Introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom. Retrieved from Oxford
University Press.
Berridge
takes the realm of public health back to hundreds of centuries ago. She
explains that we need to go back to the origins of cities and towns to truly
understand how it all started. Times of war, economic hardship, and recessions
helped to shape public health and how we see it today. For instance, scientific
data helped to understand the quantities of people who were getting sick in a
area or how many fatalities during battle. The threat of disease and death has
targeted the public for centuries thus making public health an important topic
over communities especially during times of reform. Early communities focused
on this priority by creating drainage systems for restrooms, hallways and
corridors that kept food from feces, and people, and clean water supplies
everyone could reach. Dating back to ancient Greece and Roman times
philosophers, doctors, and knowledgeable men wrote thesis on papers on how to
keep the public clean and healthy. Physicians like the famous Hippocrates
helped to create what modern medicine is today in his “Hippocratic Writings”
that cover a wide range explaining diseases and their diagnoses to prevention
of said diseases. He was extremely knowledgeable of what it took to be a
healthy being including a balanced diet, meditation, and exercise. The Romans
were also conscious of the public health within their communities and learned
much from their Greek brothers. As their writings were transferred all over the
world new theorists and physicians began to add to their writings improve the
wealth of this knowledge.
Industrialization
and urbanization of the 19th century skyrocketed the amount of
people and diseases in cities. There was little to no sanitation due to the
copious amounts of people and small housing. People threw their trash and feces
out their door which led to it feeding into the water drains, sewage systems,
and spread around the streets all over cities. Overcrowding and slum conditions
led to epidemics of diseases and theories of how they came to be. The public
health change of the 19th century highlighted the connection between
poverty and its relationship to economic development and therefore the
downfall. The Poor Law reform was enacted and highlighted the connection
between poverty and disease which caused for serious reform and regulations
that changed Britain forever. Vaccinations for diseases and sexual health were
also two areas of reconstruction during this time that were deemed of
significance. Germ theory, also known as bacteriology, became a widespread
theory to most diseases. This in turn helped to cure and theorize the start of
a disease, prevention, and how to cure it or protect yourself from it.
It’s
extremely interesting to me to know that so many centuries ago ancient Greeks
and Romans were learning this information just from human knowledge alone. They
are the creators of modern medicine and how and why did this come to be? How
did their knowledge of the human body alone serve to communicate that within
each person our health should be dictated as one and therefore can be treated
as one if a disease or ailment falls on them? It never ceases to amaze me the
knowledge they had to be able to theorize and predict and create treatments,
and books, and everything else they ever imagined. I hope to use this
information to strengthen my theory that those who live in poverty tend to be
unhealthier than those who don’t live in poverty. This is because these
communities don’t have access to education, healthcare, and are usually under
tremendous amounts of stress due to their social ranking.
Ch. 3 and 4 annotations
Berridge,
Virginia. (2016). Public Health: A Very
Short Introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom. Retrieved from Oxford
University Press.
Berridge
takes the realm of public health back to hundreds of centuries ago. She
explains that we need to go back to the origins of cities and towns to truly
understand how it all started. Times of war, economic hardship, and recessions
helped to shape public health and how we see it today. For instance, scientific
data helped to understand the quantities of people who were getting sick in a
area or how many fatalities during battle. The threat of disease and death has
targeted the public for centuries thus making public health an important topic
over communities especially during times of reform. Early communities focused
on this priority by creating drainage systems for restrooms, hallways and
corridors that kept food from feces, and people, and clean water supplies
everyone could reach. Dating back to ancient Greece and Roman times
philosophers, doctors, and knowledgeable men wrote thesis on papers on how to
keep the public clean and healthy. Physicians like the famous Hippocrates
helped to create what modern medicine is today in his “Hippocratic Writings”
that cover a wide range explaining diseases and their diagnoses to prevention
of said diseases. He was extremely knowledgeable of what it took to be a
healthy being including a balanced diet, meditation, and exercise. The Romans
were also conscious of the public health within their communities and learned
much from their Greek brothers. As their writings were transferred all over the
world new theorists and physicians began to add to their writings improve the
wealth of this knowledge.
Industrialization
and urbanization of the 19th century skyrocketed the amount of
people and diseases in cities. There was little to no sanitation due to the
copious amounts of people and small housing. People threw their trash and feces
out their door which led to it feeding into the water drains, sewage systems,
and spread around the streets all over cities. Overcrowding and slum conditions
led to epidemics of diseases and theories of how they came to be. The public
health change of the 19th century highlighted the connection between
poverty and its relationship to economic development and therefore the
downfall. The Poor Law reform was enacted and highlighted the connection
between poverty and disease which caused for serious reform and regulations
that changed Britain forever. Vaccinations for diseases and sexual health were
also two areas of reconstruction during this time that were deemed of
significance. Germ theory, also known as bacteriology, became a widespread
theory to most diseases. This in turn helped to cure and theorize the start of
a disease, prevention, and how to cure it or protect yourself from it.
It’s
extremely interesting to me to know that so many centuries ago ancient Greeks
and Romans were learning this information just from human knowledge alone. They
are the creators of modern medicine and how and why did this come to be? How
did their knowledge of the human body alone serve to communicate that within
each person our health should be dictated as one and therefore can be treated
as one if a disease or ailment falls on them? It never ceases to amaze me the
knowledge they had to be able to theorize and predict and create treatments,
and books, and everything else they ever imagined. I hope to use this
information to strengthen my theory that those who live in poverty tend to be
unhealthier than those who don’t live in poverty. This is because these
communities don’t have access to education, healthcare, and are usually under
tremendous amounts of stress due to their social ranking.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Writing Center Visit 2
TJ was very helpful and went through the revisions on my results, methods, and discussion section with me step by step. Instead of telling me what to change he hinted that a sentence could be worded better or structured differently so I was revising my papers myself. He was a great teacher and I plan on visiting one more time before the semester's over.
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