Impacts of Health and Medicine on Medieval Society

Disease Impacts on Society

Impacts of the
Black Plague

Impacts on Economy and Development

Social Break Down

Halt of Development

Population Drop

Inability to perform new research
and developments

Insufficient money for maintenance

Cost of non-refined medicine

Lack of Workers

Increased Disease Spread

Medical Developments

Other developments

No Medical Development
or Assistance

Decrease in available service
and resource production

Food production

General Services

High Demand Medicine

Prevention of Disease Spreading

Weaponry

Miscellaneous Developments

Architecture

Social Class Breakdown

Individual Social Disconnection

Family Disconnection
(caused by infected or diseased
family members)

Business breakdown
(causing a halt in service
and resource production)

Increased spread of disease

Insufficient money for other areas
of development and maintenance.

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Accelerated Deaths

Insufficient resources

More deceased -
Faster disease spread

Business

Family Lines

Feudal System

More deceased -
Faster disease spread

Clash between Rich
and poor

Loss of services to the rich

prevention of maintenance
and resource production.

Direct effect on Economy

Loss of family businesses

Peasants restriction to services

Loss of bloodlines -
Rapid population drop

Loss of services to the rich

Restricitons set to the poor

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Halt in trading and export