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Hospitals and Public Health: Conflicting Or Complementing Each Other
ISSN: 2617 - 9482
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Hospitals and Public Health: Conflicting Or Complementing Each Other
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Publisher: Bahria University Medical And Dental College
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Abstract
Hospitals - the original facilities for the sick date back tothe temples dedicated to “healing gods” in Egyptians andGreeks. The oldest architectural evidence can be dated backto 9th Century AD in Sri Lanka. The word “hospital” comesfrom the Latin word “hoses” for host or “hospitium” meaninga place to entertain1. While medical schools were establishedin Greece in the 6th Century BC, there is consensus that thefirst teaching hospital was founded at Gondisapur in presentday Iran in 300 AD Ref). Similarly, the evolution of PublicHealth can be traced to the origins of various religionswherein purity, cleanliness and hygiene had been part of thereligion. The Greek and Indus Valley civilization (3500-1500 BC) also emphasized the sanitation and drainagesystem and building of wells2. However, the concepts of“treating the sick” and “preventing the healthy from gettingsick” could not be combined and had been treated as separateentities
