MEDICAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE WORLD’S UNPRIVILEGED INDIVIDUALS
Abstract:
Nowadays, medicine has a profound community character in most states of the world. Health condition is related to the community welfare, to the living standards, to everything that experts call life quality. Illness is not only a matter of human biology, but also an important social problem, partly depending on factors and conditions of social environment and partly on behaviours, social norms or values, practices, habits and life styles, habits of a certain population and its groups. Although physical and mental diseases may be found at all levels of social classes, the socio-economic position strongly influences the individual health status.
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