CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MEDICINE IN HOMOEOPATHY

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CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MEDICINE IN HOMOEOPATHY

• Dr. SUNNY MATHEW M.D.(HOM).,
• PROFESSOR,
• MATERIA MEDICA HOMEOPATHIC THERAPUETICS,
• FR. MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE,
• MANGALORE.

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CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MEDICINE IN HOMOEOPATHY

• SOCIAL MEDICINE IS THE BRANCH OF COMMUNITY
  MEDICINE THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF SOCIAL
  FACTOR IN THE CAUSATION OF ILLNESS, DEBILITY AND
  PREMATURE DEATH

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CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MEDICINE IN HOMOEOPATHY

• HOMEOPATHY CURATIVE MEDICINE
• HOMEOPATHY PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
• HOMEOPATHY PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
• HOMEOPATHY SOCIAL MEDICINE

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CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MEDICINE IN HOMOEOPATHY
PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT
MAN
PART OF THE FAMILY
PART OF THE SOCIETY
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CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MEDICINE IN HOMOEOPATHY
INDIVIDUAL
SPORADIC
EPIDEMIC
SICKNESS
ENDEMIC
PANDEMIC
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HOMEOPATHY AND SOCIAL MEDICINE

• SOCIAL FACTOR AS EXCITING CAUSE
• SOCIAL FACTOR AS MAINTAING CAUSE
• SOCIAL FACTOR AS OBSTACLE TO CURE
• SOCIAL FACTOR FOR PREVENTION

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HAHNEMANNS UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL MEDICINE

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• Useful to the physician in assisting him to
  cure are the particulars of the most probable
  exciting cause of the acute disease, as also the
  most significant points in the whole history of
  the chronic disease, to enable him to discover
  its fundamental cause, which is generally due to
  a chronic miasm. In these investigations, the
  ascertainable physical constitution of the
  patient (especially when the disease is chronic),
  his moral and intellectual character, his
  occupation, mode of living and habits, his social
  and domestic relations, his age, sexual function,
  etc., are to be taken into consideration.

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HAHNEMANNS UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL MEDICINE

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• There are, however, as has just been stated,
  certainly a few emotional diseases which have not
  merely been developed into that form out of
  corporeal diseases, but which, in an inverse
  manner, the body being but slightly indisposed,
  originate and are kept up by emotional causes,
  such as continued anxiety, worry, vexation,
  wrongs and the frequent occurrence of great fear
  and fright. This kind of emotional diseases in
  time destroys the corporeal health, often to a
  great degree.

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HAHNEMANNS UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL MEDICINE

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• Having thus seen what attention should, in the
  homopathic treatment, be paid to the chief
  varieties of diseases and to the peculiar
  circumstances connected with them, we now pass on
  to what we have to say respecting the remedies
  and the mode of employing them, together with the
  diet and regimen to be observed during their use.

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SOCIAL FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH

• SMOKING
• ALCOHOL
• CHILD MARRIAGE
• FOOD HABITS
• POOR SANITATION
• PERSONAL HYGINE
• EDUCATION

• OCCUPATION
• POLITICAL SYSTEM
• URBANISATION
• MIGTRATION
• INDUSTRIALIZATION
• CAST SYSTEM
• HEALTH SERVICE

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EPIDEMOLOGY AND HOMEOPATHY
INCOME
HABIT
OCCUPATION
BEHAVIOUR
DISTRIBUTION DETERMINENTS
HOUSING
SOCIAL STATUS
OVER CROWDING
SOCIAL CUSTOMS
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• HOW WE CAN UTILISE
• THE KNOWEDGE OF SOCIAL
• MEDICINE FOR MORE EFFECTIVE
• PATIENT CARE
• AND
• PREVENTION ???????

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ECONOMICS HEALTH HOMEOPATHY

• PRODUCTION , DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMPTION, COST
  EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT
• POLITICAL SCIENCE HEALTH CARE
• SOCIAL SCIENCE HEALTH CARE
• ANTHROPOLOGY PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURED
  HISTORY OF MAN

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KNOWEDGE OF SOCIOLOGY
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN BEING
STUDY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
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SOCIAL MEDICINE HOMOEOPATHY

• A) Hahnemanian concept of social factor in the
  development of disease
• B) Modern concept of social factor
• in the development of diseases
• In the treatment process
• In the preventive measures
• C) Role of homeopaths in social medicine

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