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Built drainage
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Primitive medicine due in part to priest-physicians
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Contained laws pertaining to health practices and physicians
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Extended the Egyptian hygienic thought
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System toilets and water flushing system
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Fisrt to put emphasis on disease prevention
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Many health advances lost, great epidemics
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Built an extensive aqueduct system.
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Theory of disease causation
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"Rebirth", Health board formed in Italy
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Scientific advancements continued throughout this period. Miasmas Theory.
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Federal government started a public health service
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Public health problems: smallpox, cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis.
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Report on an Inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the laboring populations of Great Britain
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Formation of general board of health for England
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Dr. Snow removes pump handle in London, hypothesized the cholera disease.
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Louis Pasteur proposes gem theory
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Common Wealth of Massachusetts established a state board of health
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bacteriological period of public health
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Congress created the National Board of Health
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38 states had establish state boards of health
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Vaccination, motor vehicle safety, safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, safer and healthier foods, family planning, recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
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marine Hospital was dropped from the name and the service became known as the U.S public health service
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The movement of healthier work place conditions was established
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Research related to school health education
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Public health education section of the APHA was founded
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President Roosevelt created numerous agencies and programs as part of his new deal
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Social Security Act provided support for state health department and their programs
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The school of health section of the American Public health Association was formed
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Federal government passed major legislation designed to improve the health of the U.S population
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Congress passed medicare and medicaid
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First national effort to promote the health of citizens.
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Promoting health/ preventing disease objectives for the nation was released
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national Health Promotion and disease prevention objectives was released
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The standard occupational classification policy review committee approved the creation of new distinct classification for the occupation of health educator.
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understanding and improving health
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National Health Education standars second edition released in 2006 by the American Cancer Society
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will guide U.S public health practice and health education specialists for the next 10 years.
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President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable care Act.