Higher education corner
SUB. PUBLIC HEALTH
Arif-uz-Zaman Khan
Lecturer
Atish Dipankar Biggayan O Projukti Bisshabiddalaya
Question
1. What is Public Health?
2. Define Modern Public Health?
Definition
There have been many attempts to define Public health.
Arranged chronologically,
The definitions present a word picture of the evolution and progress of the field.
In 1920, C.E.A. Winslow, a former professor of Public health at Yale University, gave the definition of Public health.
The WHO Expert Committee on Public health Administration, adapting Winslow’s earlier definition.
According to the present day concept,
Public health is the organised application of resource to achieve the health for all.
Modern Public Health is the result of a growth of understanding and sense of responsibility.
With the adoption of the “Health for All”, a new public health is now evident world-wide, which may be defined as:
“the organized application of local, state, national and international resources to achieve “Health for All”, i.e. attainment by all people of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life”.
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