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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department
Moreover, when we ethically reflect on the paradox of prevention, we can recognize that health
policy and public health measures may or not bring substantial benefits to the individual patient.
Some authors even advocate for the existence of a new ethic for public health, namely the
importance of health promotion at crosscutting level throughout society as an ethic call imperative
of the health professions (Beauchamp and Steinbock 1999).
On a global scale, it is recognized today that globalization is not only an echo nomic or cultural
endeavor, but it is also an evolution of huge civilizational impact (Ingebrigtsen and Haggen 2015).
Environmental changes, water resources, biodiversity, or public health need coordinated
strategies at the global level for the harmonious development of each human being.
2.11.1 Socioeconomic Status
Epidemiology refers to the study of distribution and determinants of health-related conditions in
specific populations and their use for the control of health prob elms.
From a sociological perspective, epidemiology in promoting public health is considered as a true
instrument of social justice besides being an area of medicine (Coughlin and Beauchamp 1996).
A priori, what is at stake is the recognition of the importance of health sociology as a field of
sociology that intends to deal with broad scope concepts such as the social role of the sick person,
the experience of falling ill, the importance of medicalization (and quaternary prevention), and the
various social constructions emerging from it, that is, the sociological study of health services at
the organizational level. Possibly, both a reformulation of trade tonal health promotion strategies
and a change of archetypes can happen, such as the concepts of risk factors, controlled clinical
trials, or cost-benefit analyses.
This is a different perspective of respect for social welfare that promotes responsibility with a view
of solidarity.
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