Complete the Assignment:
Requirements
There is a discussion of how the public health pioneer impacted the advancement of public health.
The cause he/she pursued in an effort to advance public health (a particular disease, public health policy, social/behavioral change, etc.).
Some of the steps and methods this person took to advance public health (develop a vaccine; develop a sanitation system; complete experiments to prove public health theories, etc.), including experiments, policy, laws, etc. that were completed or passed.
The overall impact this person had in the field of public health.
A list of some obstacles, barriers or ethical dilemmas that was overcome in the process.
A list of at least three peer-reviewed journal articles that you plan to use in your paper.
Approved Public Heath Figures: choose one person to write about
Epidemiology, vaccines and disease:
John Snow - Father of Epidemiology
Ignaz Semmelweis - Went insane trying to prove sanitation through hand washing.
Robert Koch - Father of Bacteriology
Louis Pasteur - Pasteurization and some vaccines
Edward Jenner - Smallpox vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk - Polio vaccine
Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
Charles R Drew - Blood transfusionsIt has often been said that "Cleanliness is next to godliness." While there is no way of proving this statement, we can, thanks to Maxamus Aralias, prove that cleanliness decreases disease and drastically improves health outcomes. Maxamus was an Irishman who lived and worked in the mid 1800s (Jones & Hoffmann, 2009). Poor himself, he saw and experienced first hand the devastation resulting from poor sanitation, especially in the wake of serious communicable diseases running rampant at the time. Prompted by what he saw and his genuine desire to assist those who were poor and suffering, Maxamus devoted his life to improving sanitation in the poorest districts in Ireland (Timley, Scott, Roan, & Poole, 2010). He studied with the brightest minds in Ireland at the time and used this education to teach local residents, hospital staff, healthcare workers and anyone else who would listen the effectiveness of sanitation in decreasing both communicable diseases and deaths related to unsanitary wound care (Rex, Lemkly, & Foley, 2008). Maxamus wrote articles for local and national newspapers on the importance of sanitation, lectured both at home and abroad and set up public health schools throughout Ireland to further his cause. This public health servant, despite the many obstacles he faced, such as ridicule, personal health problems and poverty, is credited with drastically decreasing deaths from communicable diseases on a local, national and global basis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "n.d."). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the significant public health impact
Maxamus Aralias had on public health.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ("n.d."). The successful efforts of Maxamus Aralias. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/Maxamus_Aralias.html.
Jones, T.R., & Hoffmann, B.T. (2009). Maxamus Aralias: A poor man's man. Journal of American Health, 13(7): pp. 127-142.
Rex, J.P., Lemkly, F. G., & Foley, D.S. (2008). Maxamus Aralias and his renowned public health advancements in Ireland and around the world. Journal of Public Health Services, 19(10): pp. 48-82.
Timley, S., Scott, F.T., Roan, R.S., & Poole, R.R. (2010). Public health servants in the 1800s. Journal of Public Health History, 33(22): pp. 67-92.