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Modern medicine - Coggle Diagram
Modern medicine
Alternative medicine
Approaches that aren't scientifically proven, but many find them effective
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Liberal social reforms
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Second Boer war
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Worries that if Britain was in a bigger war, there wouldn't be enough men who were fit enough to fight
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Impact of War
Blood transfusions
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By WW2 blood was able to be stored longer and in 1938, British National blood transfusion service opened
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Skin graft
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By WW2, Archie McIndoe used penecillin to prevent infection
Health
People grew their own vegetables, healthier eating
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Interwar health measures
Changes were made to the training of doctors and nurses, hospitals became better value for money
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NHS and welfare state
NHS - a government funded healthcare system which is free at the point of access to treat injury and illness, paid by tax
Beveridge report 1942
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Labour party promised to follow beveridges adivce if they won the general election, it was popular with the public
Welfare state set up, so that people could get help even if they couldn't afford to pay for it
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Positives
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Women are able to get treatment, don't have to sacrifice themselves for the health of their kids
Negatives
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If people live longer, they need more healthcare, which is more expensive to run for the government
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Great smog
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Killed 12,000 people, casued by burnign coal
Government introduced clean air laws, which encouraged households throughout the country to change from coal fires to the cleaner gas and electricity
1960s, slum clearance took place to provide everyone with good housing, more high rise buildings were built
Towns like Chelmsey wood were created in 1965 with 16,000 homes for 50,000 people who didn't live in cities
Drug development
Penicillin
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Factors in development
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Role of Individual - without work of Florey and Chain Penecillin might not have been developed for years
Manafacturing
Before penecillin, drugs hadn't been manafatured on a large scale
Post WW2, pharmaceutical industry grew
Spanish flu
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During WW1, more soldiers died due to influenze in the last few months than during the whole war
HIV/AIDS
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by 2014, 40 million had died from AIDS
Government played an important part in slowing down the spread of AIDS, through drug developing like AZT, and providing protection fr sex
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