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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

• Nursing organizations should address concerns about the plight of individual nurses to the

governments responsible for the safety of those at risk as well as offering professional bodies in

affected countries their solidarity and any practical help which might be feasible.

• Nursing bodies should encourage nurses and midwives to view their work within a framework
of promoting the human rights of patients and should make nurses aware of the UN Declaration

on Human Rights Defenders.

2.11 Public Health as a Social Choice

The state of a population’s health is deeply influenced by economic, social, polity call, and

therefore, cultural factors. That is, social factors create and shape the pat terns of health and
disease.

This principle of social epidemiology necessitates the adoption of clear public health measures,

particularly in education, basic sanity ton, infectious disease control, and social protection
mechanisms, among others.

If concerted, these effectors can have a decisive, positive impact on the quality of life, disease

prevention, and life expectancy; that is, overall gains in health.

The principles underlying public health, which is the science and art of organ icing communitarian

health efforts, are in apparent contradiction with all forms of biological determinism, particularly
genetic determinism.

This has caused some tension between social epidemiology and techno sciences.

This perspective seeks to improve the population’s health conditions in a communitarian context.

However, intuitively, the real patient always takes precedence over the statistical patient once the
former is the ultimate object of public health and epidemiology than the latter, which is its

operational instrument.

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