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Impact Of Health On Public Health

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HAS THERE BEEN AN IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH? Preventive medicine has a number of possibilities for improving the health of a population, in methods that require compulsory controls, like quarantine and compulsory immunization. It is also possible through systematic arrangements for personal check-ups, early diagnosis and treatment. Health is a national asset which is worth maintaining. The debate in health care has focussed more on the treatment of people once they become ill. However, emphasis on the treatment of people once they become ill overlooks the basic fact that keeping up the health of a population is essential for a country’s economy, national security, and success as a nation. The benefits of a healthy population extend far beyond health care costs. Although treating illness is an indispensable part of health care, reforming and strengthening our public health system are equally important to improving the health of individuals and of our population as a whole and to managing finite resources effectively. Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for sanitation of environment, regulation of community infections, education of individuals in principles of personal hygiene, organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis, prevention, treatment of disease, and development of the social machinery which ensures that every

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