scholarly journals Addressing the epidemiologic transition in the former Soviet Union: strategies for health system and public health reform in Russia.

1996 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
T H Tulchinsky ◽  
E A Varavikova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Health System ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Epidemiologic Transition ◽  
Public Health Reform

The public's view of public health in mid-Victorian Britain

Urban History ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sigsworth ◽  
Michael Worboys
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
The Public ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Public Health Reform

What did the public think about public health reform in mid-Victorian Britain? Historians have had a lot to say about the sanitary mentality and actions of the middle class, yet have been strangely silent about the ideas and behaviour of the working class, who were the great majority of the public and the group whose health was mainly in question. Perhaps there is nothing to say. The working class were commonly referred to as ‘the Great Unwashed’, purportedly ignorant and indifferent on matters of personal hygiene, environmental sanitation and hence health. Indeed, the writings of reformers imply that the working class simply did not have a sanitary mentality. However, the views of sanitary campaigners should not be taken at face value. Often propaganda and always one class's perception of another, in the context of the social apartheid in Britain's cities in the mid-nineteenth century, sanitary campaigners' views probably reveal more about middle-class anxieties than the actual social and physical conditions of the poor. None the less many historians still use such material to portray working-class life, but few have gone on to ask how public health reform was seen and experienced ‘from below’. Historians of public health have tended to portray the urban working class as passive victims who were rescued by enlightened middle-class reformers. This seems to be borne out at the political level where, unlike with other popular movements of the 1840s and after, there is little evidence of working-class participation in, or support for, the public health movement.

Consequences of radical public health reform in England

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Laura Aylett ◽  
Helen Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Public Health Reform

scholarly journals Pioneers in the Victorian provinces: veterinarians, public health and the urban animal economy

Urban History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Public Health Activity ◽  
Animal Economy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Health Reform

From the 1850s in Britain, concerns were growing about the role of animals in transmitting disease to man, whether through the food chain or through infection. While London is often seen as providing a model for public health reform, it was the great provincial cities that initiated veterinary involvement in public health in the closing years of the century. The emergence of this new strand of public health activity is the subject of this paper.

Venereal Disease and Public Health Reform in Canada

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzann Buckley ◽  
Janice Dickin McGinnis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Public Health Reform
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