Bio-psycho-social medicine is a comprehensive form of medicine bridging clinical medicine and public health

Bio-psycho-social medicine is a comprehensive form of medicine bridging clinical medicine and public health

The journal, BioPsychoSocial Medicine, was launched in January 2007, and more than three and a half years have passed since the start of publication. A total of 70 articles have been published, as of August 2010, but the number of those directly discussing issues of public health or social medicine is relatively small [1-4]. Psychosomatic medicine, or biopsychosocial medicine, encompasses all a...

A Reoprt from Department of Public Health and Social Medicine

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

Psycho-Social Medicine

History of Public Health and Social Medicine

HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE A new course on the History of Public Health and Social Medicine is now being offered at the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, in the spring semester of 1966. The purpose of this course is to trace the genesis and the development of scientific fact and ideas, taking into account intellectual exchanges and influences of a...

Synergies between Clinical Medicine and Public Health

Public health nursing and community health nursing both involve an understanding of the relation between clinical care and public health (Box 1) [1]. A recent publication has highlighted the synergies between clinical medicine and public health [2]. The present commentary suggests ways in which these synergies may be relevant to the role of those engaged in public health nursing and community h...