Understaning a Community’s Opportunity for Healthy Lives
October 26, 2008 by marc
I commit to review all of these articles. In addition to expertise on the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases, we must understand and act upon the dynamics that cause the diseases. These articles and the broad overview “Hygeia’s Constellation” give insights and impetus to an community based approach to health.
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As the compendium of knowledge on diseases has advanced it has become increasingly clear that diseases do not usually exist in isolation from other diseases and health conditions, that synergistic disease interactions are of considerable importance to disease course and consequence, and that the social conditions of disease sufferers are critical to understanding the clustering and spread of disease, its expression in signs and symptoms, and its health impact at the individual and population levels.Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World
This report examines how public health work is transforming and reorienting in the context of contemporary challenges.
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