Social Medicine

Social Medicine

In 1978 two United Nations organizations, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, held a joint conference at Alma Ata in the Soviet Union at which health was described as a human right to which all people were entitled. The goal of achieving health for all by the end of the century was established. The Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care emerged from this conference. It was endorsed o...

Social Medicine

Social medicine and social policy.

Social medicine as a term has achieved acceptance in medical education and medical practice, although there is still some question as to its acceptance in reality. The term had its origin in the vigorous nineteenth-century efforts at both medical and social reform, combining the two in a recognition of the intimate connection between social factors and the causation of disease. Henry Ernest Sig...

Social Science in Medicine

In these times, when our social and political inadequacies in dealing with the advances wrought by nuclear fission are so apparent, it is encouraging to find that forward-looking men in medicine and the social sciences are working together to bridge that gap between their respective fields of interest. Although the authors point out that the practice of medicine at large or in the hospital in p...

Social Work in Medicine

The present time is opportune for reconsidering the lines on which the University should introduce her students to the higher conception of Practical Medicine. Fifty years ago, the Literae Humaniores were inadequate representatives of knowledge. Now we see that the complicated condition of human society, with its pressing needs, demands such extended estimate of the Physician's functions as to ...