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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 ...
London, England Bubonic plague: 19,900+ [62] 1596–1602 Spain plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1596–1602 Spain: Bubonic plague: 600,000–700,000 [63] 1600–1650 South America malaria epidemic 1600–1650 South America Malaria: Unknown [citation needed] 1603 London plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1603 London ...
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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 ...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) was a non-departmental public body in England. [1] It was set up by the UK government in 2003 to protect the public from threats to their health from infectious diseases and environmental hazards. [2] The HPA's role was to provide an integrated approach to protecting public health in the UK.
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.