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This article reviews the 1952 paper by Dugald Baird on preventive medicine in obstetrics, and comments on its significance from a modern day perspective. It notes that the paper is a public health classic in the sense that it attempts to bring back the social perspective to the practice of medicine. It also highlights the impact of social factors on the health of mothers and children and give...

The word 'Health' has enjoyed an enormous popularity with writers during the past quarter century. It was only during the second world war, the term 'social medicine' came into wider use. The concept of social medicine has given a new orientation of medicine to the changing needs of man and society. The vast majority of the population of the world still have no access to decent health care.

1 Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Laboratory, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2 Centre on Behavioral Health, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 3 Center for Integrative Medicine, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 4Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospi...

Thomas E. Dorner*, Franz Schwarz, Alexander Kranz, Wolfgang Freidl, Anita Rieder and Christoph Gisinger Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University Graz, Austria Institute of Social Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University Vienna, Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute for Demography, Austria Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical Universit...

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...

Author details Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change (SCOHOST), Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden. European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Departmen...

1Centre for Evidence Based Intervention, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London, London, UK 3Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 4Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University...

1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. 2 Public Health, Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 3 Department of Preventive Medicine/Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making, Field of Social Life Science, Program in Health and ...

The practice of psychosomatic medicine is closely related to that of behavioral medicine, particularly in terms of the bio-psycho-social aspect of health, as has been demonstrated in the previous articles of BioPsychoSocial Medicine [1–3]. Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field combining medicine, psychology and social science, and the integration of behavioral medicine with psychoso...