HEALTH AND 1306

Introduction What is Public Health? According to Smith and Jacobson, 1988, public health ‘involves the promotion of health, the prevention of disease, the treatment of illness, the care of those who are disabled, and the continuous development of the technical and social means for the pursuit of these objectives’. During the past years in Victorian times, outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and influenza killed thousands and the Great Stink of London, when raw sewage filled the Thames, force...