THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE
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https://doi.org/10.37268/mjphm/vol.5/no.1/art.1337Abstract
In public health policy in recent years, there has been an increasing acceptance that the determinants of health are complex and reflect a mix of economic, environmental, social, biological and genetic factors. Social well-being is a well-accepted integral part of health and form a major component in the World Health Organisation definition of health. It is timely that in this issue we have a Guest Editorial by MZ Azman from Croatia who deliberated on the social determinants of health in transitional countries, highlighting it with example
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