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...health has come to dominate in the West. Biomedicine, public health and germ theory With the rise of biomedicine came greater knowledge about the causes of infectious diseases. With greater urbanisation during the Industrial Revolution came widespread disease, which led to the public health movement. The key tenet of public health ......

...public health now is to get the estimated 6,600 people who have undiagnosed HIV infection to come forward for testing. Changing times Transcript HIV stigma has come a long way, too. Perhaps it was because the symptoms of HIV were so visible in the 1980s that those who first wrote about it were cultural theorists such as Sander Gilman and Simon Watney. Recent cinematic...

...Public Health England (2020) put forward a complex interplay of structural, social, economic, political and environmental explanations for the disproportionate disparities experienced by workers in Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Not only were these workers more likely to be front line workers and therefore at greater risk of acquiring COVID-19 but, because...