Public health walks

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Public health walks

• Eyes on stalks not bums on seats

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Irony One

• Talking about a walk when you are in a
  conference?
• We miss the sights, the sounds and the atmosphere
  of the big city.
• But what follows is in a compressed form some of
  the sights we have in Liverpool and their public
  health significance.
• They are longer than a normal walk, but hey. This
  is a conference.

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Irony Two.

• Teaching students about heart disease
• And the benefits of exercise.
• And the obesity epidemic..
• While they are sat on their bums for hours?

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Walking is popular!

• Public health walks have cropped up in London
• A book was written describing health care walks
  around Liverpool in the 1990s
• There are walks about slavery, the Beatles,
  architecture etc.
• But this is a new approach for teaching nurses.

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Why public health?

• Because it can be dry to teach in class
• Because you can emphasise that the important
  issues in mass health are food, water, air and
  housing.
• Because plumbers saved more lives than doctors
  ever did.
• Engineers save lives on a mass scale!

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The immense growth of Liverpool in the Victorian
period
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So, what is on the walks?
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Oriel Street
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The response to water shortage
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Burlington Bridge
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Liverpool the port
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Upper Frederick Street
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Its grim up north!
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Paradise Street Bars, Brothels and shore leave
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Seel Street
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Working life for someone?
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Public health for the rave era?
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Housing past and present
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The Victorian craze for cycling.
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Liverpools Harley Street?
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The reach of the public health crisis in
Victorian Britain
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The Nightingale connection
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Problem areas

• The weather!
• The traffic.
• Make sure you are all fit.
• The insurance issue.