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DISEASE
dr. Suryani Tawali, MPH
BASIC CONCEPTS
The fields of preventive medicine and public health share the goals of
promoting general health, preventing specific diseases, and applying the
concepts and techniques of epidemiology towards these goals.
Preventive medicine seeks to enhance the lives of individual by
helping them improve their own health
Public health attempts to promote health in populations through the
application of organized community efforts
BASIC CONCEPTS
Althought, they ( preventive medicine and public health)
are discussed somewhat separately.
There should be a seamless continuum between:
death
Chronic
state
AGENT
Disability
illness
HOST
Defect
and
ENVIRONMENTAL
factors
CLINICAL HORIZON
Known or unknown
Tissue and
physiologic
changes
STIMULUS
Immunity and
resistance
Interactions of HOST
and SIMULUS
in
human
HOST
PREPATHOGENESIS
PERIOD
Signs and
symptom
HOST REACTION
Discernible
Early
pathogenesis
PERIOD
RECOVERY
early lesions
OF
Advanced
disease
PAT H O G E N E S I S
Convalescence