History GCSE
Hospital Care
What Hospital Care means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Hospital Care
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Improvements in this were influenced by Nightingale, who emphasised sanitation, ventilation and pavilion-style designs, drastically reducing mortality rates.
Topics that use Hospital Care
- Option 11: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Government intervention
- Prevention of Disease
- Professionalisation
- Public health
- Role of Individuals
- Surgical Advancements
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Using Hospital Care in the exam
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