RT Book, Section
A1 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141964192
T1 Control of Communicable Diseases
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141964192
RD 2024/04/20
AB The  most  important  function  of  public  health  in  its  broadest  sense  is  to  seek  an  optimal  harmony  between  groups  of  people  in  society  and  their  environment.  This  goal  can  be  achieved  in  three  ways:  (a)  by  methods  to  improve  host  resistance  of  populations  to  environmental  hazards;  (b)  by  effective  plans  to  improve  the  safety  of  the  environment;  and  (c)  by  improving  health-care  systems  designed  to  increase  the  likelihood,  efficiency,  and  effectiveness  of  the  first  two  goals.  With  respect  to  infectious  diseases  there  are  special  elements  within  each  of  the  three  categories  (Table  8-1).  One  might  then  view  communicable  diseases  as  an  imbalance  in  the  relationship  of  people  and  their  environment  which  favors  microbial  dominance  in  populations.