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Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1998), good coverage of the British record in ch. 8-9. Rosen, George A History of Public Health (1958). online, a standard scholarly history. Sheppard, Francis. London 1808-1870: The infernal wen (1971, reprint 2022) online, see pp 247–296.. Siena, Kevin.
The Act established Public Health England as an executive body accountable to the Secretary of State for Health. It took over public health activity from the department and from the regional strategic health authorities (which were abolished), and all activities of the Health Protection Agency, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse ...
1775–1776 England influenza outbreak 1775–1776 England Influenza: Unknown [116] 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic: 1775–1782 Native populations in what is now the Pacific Northwest of the United States Smallpox: 11,000+ [117] [118] 1778 Spain dengue fever outbreak 1778 Spain Dengue fever: Unknown [119] 1782 Influenza pandemic ...
The School's 'History Group' was awarded Centre status in 2002 and became the Centre for History in Public Health in 2003, with members of other departments of the School on its management committee. [2] [3] Today, the Centre is a rare example of historians working in medical or public health settings. [4]
A history of English public health, 1834 - 1939 (1950). Hardy, Anne. Health and medicine in Britain since 1860 (2001) Harris, James Jeffrey. "Body Politics: A History of Public Health and Politics in Britain, 1885-1922" (PhD dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2017) online. Lambert, R. Sir John Simon 1816-1904 and English social ...
The Genesis of the British National Health Service (2nd edn (Basil Blackwell, 1962). Klein, R. The New Politics of the National Health Service (3rd ed. 1995). Lindsey, A. Socialized Medicine in England and Wales: The National Health Service, 1948–1961 (U. of North Carolina Press, 1962). Loudon, Irvine, John Horder and Charles Webster.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". [ 2 ]
In England, in 2016, 26.2% of adults were obese and it is forecast that levels of obesity will increase by 2023. A study by Public Health England in 2017 found that 41% of the 15.3 million English adults aged 40 to 60 do not walk for as much as 10 minutes continuously each month at a brisk pace. A quarter of the English population was found to ...