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Stanhope & Lancaster: Foundations of Nursing in the Community: Community-Oriented Practice, 2nd Edition

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Chapter 2: The news report of Public and Community Health and Nursing

I. A review of the history of wellness interest practices, beginning with early Western civilizations and think on the dominant cultural mentations and practices of each era, is useful in understanding the current community health care system.
A. The Babylonians, Egyptians, and Jews stress hygiene. They had some medical skills and were interested in systematizing health care practices. The Egyptians developed a variety of pharmaceutical preparations and constructed earth privies and earthly concern drainage systems.
B. The Greeks emphasized personal rather than community health and believed that individual health was linked to the environment. The Romans recognized the importance of the jurisprudence of medical practices and punishment for medical negligence. They had advanced administrative and technology skills that they used to establish sewage systems. During the Roman Empire era, women visited and cared for ptyalize persons in their homes.
C. The Middles Ages (ad 500 to 1500) cut a decline in community health organization and practice.



Poor sanitary conditions and residential crowding led to an increased incidence of communicable diseases. Christianity brought with it the idea of personal responsibility for others, and care of the sick was one delegacy to fulfill this responsibility. Most people were responsible for securing their own health care services. Religious convents and monasteries established hospitals to care for the sick, poor, and neglected.
D. Although the Renaissance (ad 1500 to 1700) saw a growth of science and technology leading to advances in medicine and public health, public health services remained modest. In England, the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 guaranteed medical care for poor, blind, and mettlesome individuals.
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