Individual and Population Health: Review of Definitions and Relationships

Journal: Journal of Clinical Medicine Research DOI: 10.32629/jcmr.v1i1.125

Xiaoyuan Jin

School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Abstract

There have already been many arguments about the possible relationship between individual health and population health, and many studies argue that both of these two terms are identifiable or even are hard to define if there was no informative contextualization. The opinion of this study is that they have a symbiotic relationship, which causes and influences each other. Furthermore, individual health should be the basement of the population health forever. In this article, there are three challenges facing American public health: uneven distribution of medical resources; rising healthcare cost; gun violence. The relationship between individual and population health and how to balance them are discussed and studied in the article.

Keywords

definition of public health, individual health, population (community) health, symbiotic relationship, public health challenges, balanced exercises

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