简述西方公共健康史

A brief discussion on western public health history

公共健康史研究是西方医学社会史研究中的重要分支,是伴随着公共健康事业的发展而兴起的。与公共健康事业的发展相应,公共健康史经历了一个从乐观到客观的发展过程。公共健康史的研究有三大主要领域,即卫生保健、社会福利和慈善事业,这三者都具有很强的社会性和现实性。

The study of public health history, bound to follow the development of public health facilities, is an important branch among all the studies of western social history of medicine. The development of public health history has experienced a course from optimism to objectivity as public health facilities. The study of public health history embraces three major aspects, hygiene, social welfare and philanthropy, those all have a distinct sociality and reality.