A History of Public Health in Post-War Britain
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineDescription
History can offer us a unique insight into the public health problems, policies, and practices of the past, and is of critical importance to our understanding of healthcare in the contemporary world.
This online course will offer you an opportunity to bring the past into conversation with the present, enabling you to set the changing nature of public health in post-war Britain in context with changes seen today.
What topics will you cover?
- How the meaning and scope of public health has changed in Britain over the last 70 years
- The nature of public health services and their shifting relationship to local government and the National Health Service
- Individual responsibility for public health
- How chronic disease became a key challenge for public health
- The persistence of infectious disease and the appearance of new conditions like HIV/AIDS
- Socioeconomic status and its impact on public health
- Health education techniques, tactics and effectiveness
- Attempts to use regulations to improve public health
- The limits of public health, its successes and failures over time.
Who will you learn with?
I’m an Associate Professor in History at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I’m also Lead Educator on the course ‘A History of Public Health in Post-War Britain’.
Research Fellow in the Centre for History in Public Health, LSHTM. Historian specialising in the contemporary history of public health, focusing on illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
Who developed the course?
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world leader in research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Its mission is to improve health and health equity worldwide.
What Will I Learn?
- Explore the different definitions of public health and describe how these developed over the post-war period
- Identify the structures, organisations and individuals that put public health into practice
- Reflect on the challenges faced by public health in post-war Britain
- Evaluate the different solutions put forward to address public health problems in post-war Britain
- Interpret contemporary public health structures, challenges and solutions alongside their historical context
Topics for this course
Defining public health
Welcome to the course00:01:06
Definitions: what is public health?
Definitions: structures, services and actors
Definitions: problems and solutions
Public health structures
Who was responsible for public health?
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Good insight for beginners into Public Health.
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This course has been great so far. The words used are easy to understand and the content is great.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- Learners from across the world who are intrigued by the history of public health in Britain. No prior knowledge or expertise in the area is needed, although you may be a student, professional, or individual with an interest in an aligned field, such as healthcare, medicine, public health, local government, history, or science.