Fugelli P
Institutt for sosialmedisin, Universitetet i Oslo, Rikshospitalet.
Nord Med. 1993;108(12):312-5.
During this century the discipline of community medicine has been confronted with three major threats to public health: former infectious diseases, contemporary life-style diseases, and impending environmental diseases. A new approach to community medicine, with an ecological profile and a focus on the interplay between politics, economics, biology, the environment and public health, may become the medical profession's most important instrument for contending with environmental diseases. By shedding light on destroyed ecosystems and health injuries, community medicine may contribute to the evolution of informed and effective opinion, and by keeping administrators and politicians informed of research findings and their consequences, promote ecologically compatible decision-making.
在本世纪，社区医学学科面临着对公众健康的三大主要威胁：以往的传染病、当代的生活方式疾病以及即将出现的环境疾病。一种具有生态学特征且关注政治、经济、生物学、环境与公众健康之间相互作用的社区医学新方法，可能会成为医学专业应对环境疾病的最重要工具。通过揭示被破坏的生态系统和健康损害，社区医学可能有助于形成明智且有效的观点，并且通过让管理人员和政治家了解研究结果及其影响，促进生态上兼容的决策。
