[A brief discussion on western public health history.]
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.
Li
Hua-Cheng
HC
Doctorate candidate of Department of History of Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.