Promoting community health through preventive medicine

This study aims to highlight the potential role of physicians and healthcare providers in promoting health within the community, especially using preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is defined as practices used to prevent diseases. Doctors have a unique place within the community based on respe...

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Main Authors:	Bendebka, Ramzi, Shogar, Ibrahim, Fettane, Amar
Format:	Article
Language:	English English English
Published:	IIUM PRESS 2019
Subjects:	HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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spelling	iium-791752020-02-26T04:46:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/79175/ Promoting community health through preventive medicine Bendebka, Ramzi Shogar, Ibrahim Fettane, Amar HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine This study aims to highlight the potential role of physicians and healthcare providers in promoting health within the community, especially using preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is defined as practices used to prevent diseases. Doctors have a unique place within the community based on respect and trust. Most often, doctors think of patients as individuals who present themselves differently to doctors in clinics and hospitals. But, in terms of public health, the community is the patient, and doctors can treat the whole community using preventive medicine. In addition, doctors have a role in determining the general policy on health services, and they can use their position to influence and push different groups within the community to utilise beneficial health care policies and promote health conditions to the various segments of society. Accordingly, the application of the preventive medicine model is instrumental in promoting health within the community, can help doctors understand different health issues, monitor improvements in health status indicators and reduce disparities within the community. All of these goals are fully consistent with the philosophy of Islam through the general purposes, which emphasize on the protection of life, mind and wealth, which are preserved only through the rationalization of public health behaviour and the provision of distinctive medical services, help to preserve the human element and intellect and maintain its existence. Moreover, it can reduce public expenditures that often burden countries and weaken the fabric of society. IIUM PRESS 2019-12-29 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79175/1/389-Article%20Text-1758-1-10-20200106.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79175/2/389 application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79175/3/10 Bendebka, Ramzi and Shogar, Ibrahim and Fettane, Amar (2019) Promoting community health through preventive medicine. International Journal of Allied Health Sciences, 3 (3). p. 826. E-ISSN 2600-8491 https://journals.iium.edu.my/ijahs/index.php/IJAHS
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spellingShingle	HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Bendebka, Ramzi Shogar, Ibrahim Fettane, Amar Promoting community health through preventive medicine
description	This study aims to highlight the potential role of physicians and healthcare providers in promoting health within the community, especially using preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is defined as practices used to prevent diseases. Doctors have a unique place within the community based on respect and trust. Most often, doctors think of patients as individuals who present themselves differently to doctors in clinics and hospitals. But, in terms of public health, the community is the patient, and doctors can treat the whole community using preventive medicine. In addition, doctors have a role in determining the general policy on health services, and they can use their position to influence and push different groups within the community to utilise beneficial health care policies and promote health conditions to the various segments of society. Accordingly, the application of the preventive medicine model is instrumental in promoting health within the community, can help doctors understand different health issues, monitor improvements in health status indicators and reduce disparities within the community. All of these goals are fully consistent with the philosophy of Islam through the general purposes, which emphasize on the protection of life, mind and wealth, which are preserved only through the rationalization of public health behaviour and the provision of distinctive medical services, help to preserve the human element and intellect and maintain its existence. Moreover, it can reduce public expenditures that often burden countries and weaken the fabric of society.
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author	Bendebka, Ramzi Shogar, Ibrahim Fettane, Amar
author_facet	Bendebka, Ramzi Shogar, Ibrahim Fettane, Amar
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title	Promoting community health through preventive medicine
title_short	Promoting community health through preventive medicine
title_full	Promoting community health through preventive medicine
title_fullStr	Promoting community health through preventive medicine
title_full_unstemmed	Promoting community health through preventive medicine
title_sort	promoting community health through preventive medicine
publisher	IIUM PRESS
publishDate	2019
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