In honor of its 100th birthday, the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has drawn up a list of 100 objects that have had an impact on public health, for good and for ill.
Here is the full list:
- Aerosol Can
- Air Conditioner
- Airbag
- Airplane
- Ambulance
- American Cheese
- Apgar Scorecard
- Asbestos
- Automobile
- Bicycle Helmet
- Bifurcated Needle
- Big Gulp
- Bike Lane
- Birth Certificate
- Bottled Water
- Breast Pump
- Bulldozer
- Car Seat
- Catalytic Converter
- Chicken Feed
- Cigarette
- Condom
- Cook Stove
- Corvair
- Couch
- DDT
- Desk Chair
- Disposable Diaper
- Drone
- Drop-Down Crib
- Electron Microscope
- Elixir Sulfanilamide
- Facial Tissue
- Fly Swatter
- Frying Pan
- Furniture Anchor
- Garbage Trucks
- Gin And Tonic
- Glow-In-The-Dark Watch
- Gun
- Hard Hat
- HIV Test
- Horseshoe Crab
- Hot Dog
- Hypodermic Needle
- Iodized Salt
- Joe Camel
- K-Cups
- Lab Rat
- Lead Pipes
- Leaded Gasoline
- Life Jacket
- Light Bulb
- Listerine
- Loaf Of Bread
- Microchip
- Monroe Calculator
- Mosquito Net
- Naloxone
- Newborn Blood-Spot Screening Card
- Oral Rehydration Solution
- OxyContin
- Pap Smear
- Paper Cup
- Physical Education Class
- Public Health Diploma
- Radio
- Recycling Bin
- Refrigerator
- Restaurant Report Card
- Safety Goggles
- Satellite
- Seat Belt
- Shoes
- Sidewalk
- Sippy Cup
- Smartphone
- Smoke Alarm
- Soap
- Speed Limit Sign
- Spittoon
- Sterile Gloves
- Sunflower Oil
- Sunscreen
- Tamper-Resistant Cap
- Tanning Bed
- TB Skin Test
- Thalidomide
- The Pill
- Toilet
- Toothpaste
- Traffic Light
- Vaccines
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin D-Fortified Milk
- Warning Label On Cigarettes
- Water Pump
- Water Treatment Plant
- WIC Voucher
- Window Screen
To view the list with descriptions, please visit: http://www.globalhealthnow.org/100-objects
