This is what population medicine is
Population medicine is a way of clinical practice , analogous to evidence based or patient centred care in which the clinician has a concern for the population they serve that is of equal intensity to their commitment to the individual patient. Just as they feel responsible for providing safe, effective and empathetic care to the individual the clinician feels responsible for making the best use of the resources available for all the people with the health problem for which they have expertise in the population they serve.
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The analogy between clinical medicine and population medicine may be interesting but raises at least one major issue: it maintains the predominance of physicians on the domain of health.
Population medicine needs -more directly than clinical medicine- expertise, e.g., from pharmacists, economists, psychologists, nurses, or anthropologists.
Actually, population medicine is fundamentally a multidisciplinary domain – and that is not well conveyed by this analogy.
agree but in my language clinician includes nurses OT and other professions
anthropolgists have part to play but are not directly responsible for committing resources in the way that clinicians ar
thanks