Historical Epidemics & Modern Public Health

Jonsen and Stryker (1993) argue that both historically and in modern timeÆs epidemics have been responsible for having a monumental impact on the following social institutions:

Clinical research and drug regulation

The impact of historical epidemics on the public health system and public health care policy has been significant in developing responses to epidemics that are routinely incorporated into modern public health care policy and protocols. While some aspects of this impact on public health care, like increased research to find medicines or vaccines, are still included in modern health care policy, others are not. For example, quarantines were used historically during epidemics. Many individuals originally promoted the idea of quarantining AIDS victims over fear of the disease when it first erupted in the U.S. Such policies were not implemented, but historically they often were. This analysis will discuss the impact of historical epidemics on different aspects of modern public health care policy and protocols.

When the AIDS epidemic erupted in the U.S. in the early 1980s, the disease was often related to historical epidemics, particularly the bubonic plague or Black Death that devastated Europe in the fourteenth century. Historical epidemics of the past have affected not only

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). Governments that should have ideally looked to the welfare of their citizens did not, with officials as likely as other citizens to feel the city. Today, as was witnessed in the AIDS epidemic, government officials have many institutions in place to help protect citizens or offer aid to those in need. Religious groups, community-based and voluntary organization, policies for children, families, the elderly, and the poor, and other support mechanism are in place. The influenza epidemic of 1918-1920 was also one of the greatest epidemics in history. Worldwide, more than 50 million people died and in the U.S. the number surpassed 675,000, (Revisiting 2003, 1). People who died from the infectious disease were grouped into two categories, those who died rapidly within four of five days of contracting the illness and those who died from bacterial pneumonia resulting from the infection. In this manner, we see one of the ways that the great influenza epidemic had an impact on modern health care institutions. In 1918 antibiotics were not yet available, resulting in the deaths of millions. Intensive research and development on new medicines is a policy that directly stems from massive epidemics of potentially deadly diseases. Re
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