What's the difference between sanitarian and sanitarist?
Sanitarian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.
(n.) An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
(2) The health team consisted of 6 physicians (1 sanitarian, 2 surgeons, 2 internists, and 1 pediatrician), 2 social workers, 1 nurse, and 1 educator.
(3) We employed trained and supervised health workers (physicians nurses, and sanitarians) as interviewers, and a pretested questionnaire was utilized for the purpose.
(4) The average time used for assessing the patients' perception of health was 37.9 minutes by sanitarians, 32.9 midwives, 29.9 by nurses and 24.8 by medical doctors.
(5) The reliability of the instrument was tested by paired interviewers; sanitarians and midwives, medical doctors and nurses, and was highly reliable for health risk and health-specific coping index.
(6) The average time required to complete the interview was 37.9 minutes for sanitarians, 32.9 minutes for midwives, 29.9 minutes for nurses, and 24.8 minutes for physicians.
(7) Among professionals, death rates were highest among sanitarians and veterinarians, and lowest among pharmacists.
(8) Preoccupancy testing by county sanitarians had found virtually no total coliform contamination.
(9) Public health professionals include physicians, nurses, sanitarians, biostatisticians, engineers, and administrators, and epidemiology is public health's basic science.
(10) Physicians, sanitarians, and military officers explored numerous theories regarding etiology and treatment before focusing on a combined regimen of common-sense hygiene and strict military discipline.
(11) Nurses, sanitarians, and others who become surveyors are required to participate in a four-to-six month survey orientation and training period before attending a three-week university-based course sponsored by DHEW.
(12) The paper opines that if the current 'women impact continuum' permeates the Environmental Health Profession female sanitarians could justify their inclusion in the Profession, if: (i) there is strength in their number; (ii) the Federal Government grants the Environmental Health Profession a statutory Regulatory Board; (iii) Women Sanitarians are given opportunities for in-service training; and (iv) the women's wing of the Association is recognized and integrated into the National Council of Women's Societies (NCWS) of Nigeria and shown a sense of belonging by the Better Life Programme for Rural Women (BELPRW).
(13) The author describes how this situation came about by reviewing (1) the history of the 19th-century sanitarians and how their traditions (especially of taking preventive action in the absence of definitive data, in order to ensure a margin of safety) later influenced the policies of the U.S. Public Health Service and, more recently, those of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (2) the tradition of recovering damages from someone who harms your property or person; (3) the tradition of engineers to eliminate pollutants without concern for their effects; and (4) the value system of conservationists and ecologists.
Sanitarist
Definition:
(n.) A sanitarian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several differences among prevailing mental health actions are pointed out which allow a distinction between two typical models: clinical and sanitarist.