History GCSE
Prevention of Disease
What Prevention of Disease means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Prevention of Disease
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
New approaches such as the development and use of vaccinations and the Public Health Act, which improved living conditions and prevented disease.
Topics that use Prevention of Disease
- Option 11: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Government intervention
- Hospital Care
- Professionalisation
- Public health
- Role of Individuals
- Surgical Advancements
- Vaccination
Using Prevention of Disease in the exam
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