Public health medical model

Hupert, N, Mushlin, AI, Callahan, MA. Modeling the Public Health Response to Bioterrorism Using Discrete Event Simulation to Design Antibiotic Distribution Centers. Medical Decision Making 22(Suppl.) S17-S25, 2002... 

To illustrate in depth the ways in which Institutional Psychiatry serves the function of stigmatizing individuals as mentally ill, thus producing psychiatric scapegoats, 1 shall review some representative medical, journalistic, legal, and psychiatric writings on the nature of mental illness, psychiatric care, and mental health services. I shall begin with the views of an important authority in public health, a discipline often taken as the model of modern socially oriented psychiatry, and work my way toward specifically psychiatric contributions. 

Computer software for rapid reporting of unusual medical symptomology to public-health authorities and linking that data to both toxicological information and models of agent dispersion. 

Third, the scientific and societal maturation of lead as a public health issue has increasingly compelled both the scientist and the physician to view the element in ways qualitatively and quantitatively different from what has traditionally been the case. Lead has long been known to produce severe adverse effects in identifiable poisoned subjects, and those impacts required clinician and physician involvement within the framework of a one-on-one medical intervention model. However, we are increasingly made aware that lead also produces a variety of subtle but important adverse effects on the developing central nervous system and other systems in humans. These are not only irreversible in some cases but can exact significant economic and public health tolls when those effects are metered or scaled on a macro or population basis. 

I am not the only researcher to find miasmas and the influence model useful for describing present-day ill health. In addition to its current use in some forms of homeopathy, in 1965 Bernard Bloom, an employee of the National Institute of Public Health, wrote an article calling for practitioners in mental health to consider the miasma model of disease over the medical model , a variation on what I have been calling the particle model (Bloom... 

Casillas, R.P., Kiser, R.C., 2000. Therapeutic approaches to dermatotoxicity by sulfurmustard. I. Modulation of sulfur mustard-induced cutaneous injury in the mouse ear vesicant model. J. Appl. Toxicol. 20 (Suppl. 1), S145-S151. Coleman, K., 2005. A History of Chemical Warfare. Macmillan, New York, NY. Fitzgerald, G.J., 2008. Chemical warfare and medical response during World War I. Am. J. Public Health 98 (4), 611-625. 

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