Starter Quiz 1. What did Harold Gillies develop? TASK: Please write down the title, and 1-9 in your margin on a new sheet of paper. 1. What did Harold Gillies develop? 2. When did the ‘Spanish Lady’ visit Britain? 3. What was Himmler in charge of? 4. What are ‘superbugs’? 5. When were the first ‘blood bank’ created? 6. How many people died in Spain from flu in 1918? 7. What was Goebbels in charge of? 8. In what year did the Olympics take place in Berlin? 9. When was the first heart transplant? Last lesson = 1 pt Last week = 2 pt Last term = 3 pt

4. Bacteria that are resistance to antibiotics Last lesson = 1 pt Last week = 2 pt Last term = 3 pt 1. Skin grafts 2. 1918-19 3. The SS 4. Bacteria that are resistance to antibiotics 5. October 1915- During WWI 6. 7 Million 7. Propaganda 8. 1936 9. 1967

Medicine Lesson 13: Modern Public Health Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th Key Words:

Booth and Rowntree Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree played a massive role in exposing the truth about poverty in Britain and then encouraging governments to do something about it. Poverty and poor health are closely connected and so actions taken to reduce poverty improved the nations health. Why is health and poverty linked? Produce a diagram highlighting the work of Booth and Rowntree and why they were so important Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th

Liberal Government 1906-14 Complete the grid to show how these reforms impacted on health in Britain. Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th

Liberal Government 1906-14 Year Act Passed Effect of Legislation Impact on Health 1906 Workmen’s Compensation Act Granted compensation for injury at Work Provision of Meals Act Introduced free school meals Only week days, term time: Not compulsory until 1914: 1907 Education Act Created school medical inspections Did not provide treatment: 1908 Children’s Charter Made it illegal to sell alcohol, tobacco or fireworks to children Old- Age Pension Act Over 70s received 5 shillings a week, 7s 6d for a married couple Life expectancy was 50: 1909 Housing and Town Planning Act Made it illegal to build back to back houses 1911 National Insurance Act Sick and unemployment pay introduced if you paid contributions into the scheme Only paid for a limited time:

School Meals The issue of free school meals is still one that is debated today: who should get them (age, family income)? What about happens about non- school days? Should there be free breakfast? What should be in them? Look at the Case study on page 88 and in particular Source 2 Complete the Think tasks Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th

The War and After What does Corelli Barnett argue? Why is this so shocking? Liberal Social reform was shown to have not gone far enough, government controls including rationing in WW2 actually improved the diets of many of the working classes and meant they were getting more food. During WW2 the decision was made to do something about the conditions in which people lived and Lord Beveridge was given the job of investigating what needed to be done. Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th

The Beveridge Report, welfare state and NHS Beveridge identified the five ‘Giant evils’: Want- poverty,: people not having enough money for life’s basic needs (food, shelter, clothing, warmth) Solution- benefits to help people from ‘cradle to grave’: Child benefit, unemployment benefit, pensions Disease- sickness and disease Solution- National Health Service providing health care that was free at the point of use Ignorance- Lack of education Solution- Free primary and secondary education for all children Squalor- poor living conditions Solution- building regulation, building of new high standard council houses, housing benefit Idleness- Unemployment Solution- public work schemes and economic policies designed to ensure that as many people as possible were in work (full employment) Why would the above improve the health of the British People? Why did some people oppose the changes? As health was so poor what happened when the NHS was set up? Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th

Medicine Lesson 13: Modern Public Health Good learning: Understand the key developments in public health since 1900 Great learning: Explain the factors that pushed the improvement of public health Even better: Evaluate the extent to which peoples health improved in the C20th Key Words: