Public Health Law

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This paper begins by describing the history of the Public Health Law. It then discusses how this law relates to alcohol use and inoculations. It discusses the misuse of antibiotics due to lack of public education and suggests ways to encourage education initiatives within the community.

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"Hygienic and cleansing laws were the initial public health procedures. An early documentation of these laws is in Leviticus. The Romans built-up the regulation of sanitary engineering--building water mechanisms, as well as drains (Westel, 1924). The subsequent progress in public health was the quarantine of disease-carrying ships, as well as their passengers, organized in reaction to the ailments brought back by the Crusaders. The word quarantine drawn from quadraginta, meaning "forty." It was initially used amid 1377 and 1403 when Venice, as well as the other chief maritime cities of the Mediterranean assumed and imposed a forty-day custody for all ships ingoing their ports (Westel, 1924)."

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