Table 2.
Health outcomes | Risk factors | Interventions |
---|---|---|
Plague | Drought | Quarantine |
Smallpox | Earthquake | Winter frosts |
Relapsing fever | War | Great Fire of London (1666), |
Jaundice | Bacteria | Good sanitation |
Dancing Mania | Psychological | Broad street pump (1875), |
Cholera | Spider | Hand washing |
Influenza | Poor sanitation | Vaccine |
Lung cancer | Overcrowding, | No smoking |
Obesity | Virus | Smoking cessation |
Tobacco | Healthy food | |
Excess food | Physical activity | |
Physical inactivity |