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Witnessing history: a personal view of half a century in public health
- Source :
- The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Vol 48, Iss 2, Pp 181-191 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2018.
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Abstract
- Former Chief Medical Officer Sir Kenneth Calman recently celebrated 50\ud years in medicine. It was a period which saw the evolution of the public\ud health agenda from communicable diseases to diseases of lifestyle, the\ud change from a hospital-orientated health service to one dominated by\ud community-based services, and the increasing recognition of inequalities as a\ud major determinant of health. This paper documents selected highlights from\ud his career including the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak, AIDS, bovine spongiform encephalopathy,\ud foot and mouth disease, radioactive fallout, the invention of computerised tomography and\ud magnetic resonance imaging, and draws parallels between the development of the modern\ud understanding of public health and the theoretical background to the science 100 years earlier.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth
History
Inequality
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030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
communicable disease
History, 21st Century
Education
Officer
03 medical and health sciences
Health services
0302 clinical medicine
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
inequalities
medicine
Social Norms
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Social Change
Parallels
Life Style
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lcsh:R5-920
Communicable disease
Radioactive fallout
Public health
public health
General Medicine
History, 20th Century
medicine.disease
humanities
communities
Scotland
Chronic Disease
Communicable Disease Control
history
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20428189 and 14782715
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c4fb382b19fb0af47b6963430b6065c1