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Issues in Contemporary International Health (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
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Issues in Contemporary International Health (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was once asked, "When should the training
of a child commence?" "A hundred years before birth" was the reply.
Indeed it is this perspective on life through posterity that
underlies the maturing field of international health, embracing as
it does a respon sibility for and an awareness of the needs of all
peoples. The concepts of international health are increasingly
revitalizing modern medicine as it attempts to relieve mankind of
the burden of disease. Curative medicine, once the paradigm, took a
relatively benefi cient approach to treatment. But epidemiological
recognition of the fre quency of disease on a global basis-and an
appreciation of the vast number of those afflicted-evoked a
humiliating backlash of awareness that curative medicine alone
neither constrains disease nor permanently advances human health,
happiness, or longevity. The growing reliance on truly
international health strategies by national and international
agencies, including the more definite and extended practice of
preven tive medicine, has provided the means to achieve significant
gains in the quality of health in years to come. A redeeming
feature of contemporary failures in science and medi cine is
that-once intelligently studied, analyzed, and evaluated-even these
failed efforts may provide real insights that can mold our capacity
and determination. So it is that, more than in any bygone age, the
past ten years have seen the implementation of a sound and
systematic in frastructure for international health undertakings,
thus paving the way for improved health for all."
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