HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
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Health, Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Society, Public HealthAbstract
This paper argumentatively analyzed and discussed health, medicine, and society. The paper is divided into five main sections that cover health that introduces the natural sciences basically biology and chemistry which provides an important foundation for the understanding of health, development of possible medical interventions and public health programs in the society; section of medicine and diseases because the primary function of medicine is to cure or control a disease and section of society which is completely related to public
health in order to understand society in the field of public health. The fourth section covers the general discussion that links health to public health, medicine to public health and links society to public health. the final sections cover significance, conclusion, and the bibliography. This paper defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not basically the absence of infirmity or diseases.
Medicine is defined as science and practices of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. While, society is defined as a group of people that are involved in durable social interaction, or a big social group that shares the same area or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Thus, this paper discusses these three mains’ components (health, medicine and society) and related them to public health.
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