This essay focuses on uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning. Without some grounding in the quantitative disciplines of biostatistics and epidemiology, no physician can hope
uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning
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What main questions governs the discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro?Public health matters to medical care and therefore to medical education in at least six ways;
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Epidemiology, the core discipline of public health, is essential to understanding the cause and distribution of disease. Without some grounding in the quantitative disciplines of biostatistics and epidemiology, no physician can hope to independently and sensibly interpret the medical literature, or to apply it rationally to an individual patient. Dealing with uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning is as essential to sound medical care as it is to health policy and public health practice.
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Public health teaches
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Thirdly, the influence of environmental,
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further, nutritional, social, and behavioral factors on health, illness, recovery, and wellness.
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The physician who appreciates the role and potential for public health interventions—public education, social campaigns, ordinances and laws, standards and regulations, surveillance and preparedness—has a deeper understanding of the conditions that preserve health, of the primacy of disease prevention, and of the interfaces between personal medical care and community health protection.
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Public health emphasizes cultural sensitivity (similarities and differences in values, mores, and practices), community engagement, and health literacy, which have a direct bearing on the ability of patients to participate in their own health care and to protect their family’s health.
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Public health stresses systems thinking, an engineering concept. This that explains observed performance in terms of connected parts that interact in a variety of interdependent ways. The same way of thinking bears directly on patient safety and the quality. Medical care, and it provides a way of describing and understanding the performance. of everything from an individual medical encounter to the health system as a whole.
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In analogy to Clausewitz’s observation that “war is merely the continuation