How far a government becomes involved in public health tends to be influenced by their
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Through time some governments have thought it is
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Examples from History Ancient Roman Britain The Romans believed that it was the government's responsibility to look after its
act citizens dependent grave individualism political town water worse wrong . The Romans had a massive empire and could therefore afford to pay for a sophisticated public health system which included piped fresh
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Industrial Britain Hundreds of years after the Romans public health in Britain was much
act citizens dependent grave individualism political town water worse wrong . In the Nineteenth century the government believed in
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Modern Britain In the twentieth century the idea of a Welfare State emerged and the idea that government's should look after their citizens "from the cradle to the
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Study the image below 1. List the public health problems you can see in the picture
2. The picture is a cartoon drawn in the 19th century at a time when the government believed that looking after the poor, the old and the sick was the job of individuals and their families. Why didn't this idea work?