"Lessons from History: A Comparative Study of Health Information during the Cholera Epidemic & the COVID-19 Pandemic" - Tenley Sablatzky (Undergraduate Medical Academy at Prairie View A&M University)
When thinking about the 19th-century cholera epidemic, it may at first seem completely isolated from the present, but there are layers upon layers of connections to be made. A few modern health disparities include; the availability of resources to diverse groups, financial expenses, and the lack of comprehension of health materials; all of these disparity gaps have been enlarged by the COVID-19 pandemic. People of the nineteenth century dealt with the same health inequalities that people are dealing with today, which begs why haven’t things improved, or if they have, why has culture reverted to this sub-optimal norm? If health information and health services have improved, why can so many similarities be found when reading through history books?
This study aims to identify the primary issues presented by the 19th cholera epidemics, how health information was delivered and received, and who had authority over health matters. More importantly, this study will compare nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century health information to determine what has evolved for the better or worse and what has remained consistent.
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