Government intervention
What Government intervention means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The shift away from laissez-faire attitudes towards compulsory measures, such as making smallpox vaccination compulsory in 1853 and compelling local authorities to act under the 1875 Act.
Action focusing on prevention and public health, implementing measures such as the 2007 ban on smoking in public places, plain packaging laws and taxation on tobacco products.
In response to racial tensions, the government passed the Race Relations Act (1965), the first law to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of colour or race in public places.
The Mayor of London issued orders to halt the spread, including appointing searchers, shutting infected households for 28 days and banning public gatherings.
The government taking an active role in preventing disease, shifting from laissez-faire to direct intervention.
Topics that use Government intervention
- Option 11: c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England - 3 Case studies ● Key individual: William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation of the blood. (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 11: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 11: c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 11: c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain - 3 Case studies ● Key individuals: Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of penicillin. (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 13: c1900–present: Migration in modern Britain - 2 The experience and impact of migrants (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Public health
- Civil rights and activism
- Continuity and change
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Discrimination and prejudice
- High-tech medical and surgical treatment
- Hospital Care
- Mass vaccinations
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