Eduqas GCSE History · C100

Causes of Illness and Disease

What you need to know

Assess the main causes of illness and disease over time.
Explain how poverty, famine, and warfare contributed to illness in the medieval era.
Analyze the impact of a lack of hygiene in the medieval and early modern eras, with specific reference to the Black Death and the Great Plague.
Evaluate the effects of industrialisation on the incidence of cholera and typhoid in the nineteenth century.
Explain the spread of bacterial and viral diseases in the twentieth century.