HEALTH PRESENTATION

FROM THE 2ND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO MODERN DAYS

MEDICAL PROGRESS

EUROPEAN HEALTH INSURANCE CARD

1875 PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON HEALT

STUDIES ABOUT THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON HEALTCARE

• Increasingly paleopathologists have explored the impact industrialization and urbanization had on disease.

• This virtual special issue focuses upon a global examination of the transition to industry commencing in the mid-18th century.

• This introduction identifies long held assumptions about the impact the industrial revolution had on health and outlines the specific environmental and social conditions of industry that influenced human disease.

STUDIES ABOUT THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON HEALTCARE

Despite technological developments, the death rate rose, and infant mortality was very high. There was also a range of common diseases: tuberculosis, typhus, and after 1831, cholera. The terrible working environments created new occupational hazards, such as lung disease and bone deformities.

Air pollution was a known issue in the early modern periods in England, due to the use of sea coal as a fuel and from woodsmoke in the home. Increases in respiratory conditions

DISEASES

Increases in respiratory conditions

Increasing the risk of respiratory disease and vitamin D deficiency

The rapid and large-scale movement of people into cities led to substantial new threats to human health relating to high population density and cramped living conditions associated with poor sanitation and hygiene.

THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON HEALT

• In 1872 there was a Public Health Act, which split the country into sanitary areas, each of which had a medical officer
• A Food and Drink Act was passed to attempt to improve diet. This set of public health acts rationalized previous legislation and was extremely influential.
• Local authorities were made responsible for a range of public health issues and given the powers to enforce decisions, including sewage, water, drains, waste disposal, public works, and lighting.

• A lot of improvements were boosted by scientific discoveries. Koch discovered micro-organisms and separated out germs, including tuberculosis in 1882 and cholera in 1883. Vaccines were developed.

1875 PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

EUROPEAN HEALTH INSURANCE CARD

Todays, In countries that are in EU all citizen can have a free card that gives you access to medically necessary, named European Health Insurance Card.The card covers, eventually, all public medical services that a person needs, even abroad.it has a date of expiration (every six years)