21 Questions
According to R. Virchow, what will be the standard of measurement in medical statistics?
Comparison of privileged and non-privileged classes
What did R. Virchow emphasize in his report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia?
The role of social privilege in health outcomes
What aspect of medicine did R. Virchow focus on according to the text?
Preventive healthcare and public health
In what year did Matthew R. Anderson write the article 'What is Social Medicine'?
2005
What did Winslow define as the science and art of preventing disease?
Prolonging life
What was the idea established by Hippocrates in Greek medicine around 400 BCE?
The imbalance of humours as the direct cause of all disease
What were some of the efforts organized as part of the definition of public health by Winslow?
Organization of medical and nursing services for early diagnosis and preventive treatment
What explanations for disease were prevalent before science-based approaches to public health emerged?
Religion, superstition, and myth
Who insisted on social factors other than hygiene and rescued it from solely being a movement for sanitary reform?
Alfred Grotjahn
Who is credited with the statement 'Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale'?
R. Virchow
Who worked as an autopsy assistant and later became the President of the Chilean Medical Association?
Salvador Allende
Who is known for the quote 'It is impossible to give health and knowledge to a people who are malnourished, who wear rags, and who work at a level of unmerciful exploitation'?
Salvador Allende
Who wrote 'The Structure of National Health' which served as a blueprint for the national health service in Chile?
Salvador Allende
Which contemporary issue of social medicine is discussed in the text?
Antibiotics revolution
Who is considered the 'Father' of Social Medicine?
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
What did Virchow argue were the underlying causes of the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia?
Economic and political conditions
What were some of Virchow's accomplishments related to public health?
Designing and supervising Berlin sewage system
What did Jules Guerin argue for in social medicine?
Integration of medical issues, social factors, and public affairs
What was one of the goals of social medicine according to the text?
Strengthen governmental health authorities
What did Virchow's report on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia conclude?
The underlying causes were more social than medical
What did Jules Guerin argue should be systematically integrated into the framework of social medicine?
Knowledge and information about medical issues, social factors, and public affairs
Explore the history and key figures in the development of social medicine, including the resistance to germ theory and the emphasis on social factors in promoting health. Learn about the spread of social medicine throughout continental Europe in the late 1880s.
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