PUBLIC HEALTH VS. CLINICAL MEDICINE

A Comparison of Modern Public Health Practice to the Medical Care of Individuals



A Comparison of Modern Public Health Practices to the Medical Care of Individuals

Introduction

To initiate exploring the contrast between modern Public Health practices and the Clinical Health care practices of individuals, it is essential to know about both the practices individually. Public health practices focus on the overall community's health, whereas, the clinical health care practices focus on the medical care of individuals. In order to maintain a standard and to improve the health outcomes, both complementary approaches either public health practices or clinical health practices must be taken into consideration equally (Pencheon et al., 2006, p.n.d).

In this paper, there will be a comparison and contrast done between modern public health practices and the medical care of individual that is also known as clinical medicine.

Discussion

The approach of clinical medicine deals with individuals. In this approach, the mission of the provider is to act accordingly what is best and effectual for the patient's health. Though, it has been degraded for giving inadequate concentration to prevention, clinical medicine is not intrinsically bound to curative approaches instead of preventive approaches. Whereas, the approach of public health, in actually, deals with group of individuals and communities. The main mission of this approach is to serve the overall service with reference to good health services and practices, despite of the fact that some specific individuals may be well deprived in some manners (Pencheon et al., 2006, p.n.d).

The thing that is enough intrinsic to the approach of clinical medicine is its complete focus of individual or families sometimes, in conditions of intervention and diagnosis. In this approach, the inquiry of diagnosis is intended for just the specific patient. For instance, health history of a patient, patient's physiology, experiences, and ...