Health Definition, History and Basics Part – 2
Article by Yamen S
History of Public Health:
Public health refers to both the health of a population via well loved health indicators (quantitative and qualitative, including access to care), and all capable of collective healing, promote health and improve living conditions. It is intertwined with religious beliefs and animist, and the role of healer (shaman, sorcerers, etc..) that use both the local pharmacopoeia, touch and practices of magic, divination, or psychology.
In Europe, the organization of care remained until the nineteenth century overwhelmingly dependent on private initiatives and charities (The role of religious institutions has long been dominant, assisting maladies being regarded as a work of charity).
From the eighteenth century, the disease gradually ceases to be regarded as inevitable and the body becomes a concern. The first movement consists of the elites, and then gradually expanding to wider society. Health becomes a law that states must guarantee.
The development of industrialization is a second factor that tends to clarify the development of public health: one for simple criteria of productivity of workers (occupational medicine), the other for dread of riots and under the pressure from trade unions.
Finally the First and Second World War contribute to the development of medical care mass and the establishment of social policies: the birth of the concept of the welfare state. After the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, public health takes a global dimension with the WHO. The epidemiology expands to better monitor zoonotic diseases transmitted to humans, especially through collaboration with FAO and the OIE under the auspices of the UN. Europe tends to become more vital in the field of health.
The concept of public health:
The concept of public health includes several fields:
• health including occupational medicine and sometimes approaches epidemiological
• Management
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