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Government Involvement in Public Health

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How far a government becomes involved in public health tends to be influenced by their beliefs.
Through time some governments have thought it is to interfere with peoples lives and have not become involved in public health at all, at other times the government has believed that it must in public health for the good of the population.

Examples from History
Ancient Roman Britain
The Romans believed that it was the government's responsibility to look after its . The Romans had a massive empire and could therefore afford to pay for a sophisticated public health system which included piped fresh , efficient sewerage disposal, and healthy planning

Industrial Britain
Hundreds of years after the Romans public health in Britain was much . In the Nineteenth century the government believed in and self help believing that if the government did too much for people they would become weak and .

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 "


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?

Public Health in the 19th century