Question

john Graut

Information

Over the course of history, there have been key figures who have contributed to healthcare delivery around the world. We will now take a moment and explore some of those significant figures in medicine.

Instructions

Part 1: John Graunt

1. Under Week 3 Module, locate the John Graunt material

2. For your own knowledge, identify why he is noted as a significant figure in the history of medicine along with the purpose of the Bills of Mortality?

3. Review the interesting statistics of how persons died during that time. Some of this information may be difficult to understand due to the "Old English" format.

What stood out to you? Was there any diseases that are still present today?

Part 2: Other Significant Figure

Locate a significant figure from the 1900s-2000; cut off year is 2000, who has contributed to the delivery of health care.

Name the significant figure - Please refrain from noting John Grant, John Snow, or other significant figure noted in Chapter 3 or the lecture notes.

Cite your source - provide the appropriate link(s)

Describe in 5-6 sentences why this figure is "significant" and the contributions made to health care delivery.

Beyond the contributions made by this figure, identify any other "interesting" item you found inspiring.

Answer 1

Part 1:- 1) the John graunt material is mainly based in the year 1620-1674 and is considered by many historians to have founded the science of demography, the statistical study of human populations. He wrote a book regarding those figures which highly influenced the demographers of his day.

2) Graunt's work was important to public health because he developed principles of epidemiology and demography. He made inroads by discovering patterns of disease and was able to identify diseases afflicting a geographic area or gender. Graunt’s Natural and Political Observations on the Bills of Mortality, which appeared around 1662, explored many demographic questions. His empirical investigation revealed that females tended to have a longer lifespan than males, that London was growing through internal migration from the country, and that the population of London was actually much smaller (around 460,000 people) than commonly asserted (estimates ranged up to seven million.

3) common diseases are TB, small pox, measles, french pox, plauge etc.

His discovery is very important to study disease and correlation with them. There are many diseases which are present now days like TB, small pox, infections.

Part 2):- Alexander Fleming is well known scientist who discovered penicillin in 1929 which plays a major role in today's world because this discovery lead to discovery of other antibiotics by which we can treat most of the bacterial infections.