History A-Level
Public health and sanitation
What Public health and sanitation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Public health and sanitation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Nightingale emphasised sanitation and hygiene, used statistics to demonstrate the link between dirt and disease, and improved the hospital environment.
Topics that use Public health and sanitation
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 2 The Crimean War, 1854–56 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Allied cooperation and conflict
- censorship
- Command and leadership
- Impact of war on soldiers and public opinion
- Medical care and reform
- Military tactics and technology
- official patronage
- public opinion
Using Public health and sanitation in the exam
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