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is the demand for expensive hospital subsidies on the
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rise? To a large extent, it has to go with the condition of health of the general public, The adequacy or otherwise of family management The existence of administrative
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and management problems in our current health.
institutions as well as the frequency and seriousness
of industrial and traffic accidents. The health
conditions of the people can be improved by public, personal and intensive health education programmed The
administrative and management difficulties are a problem
for the Hospital Authority which is due to be formed in 1989. It is expected that, following the review
of the family medicine which will be undertaken in the near future, family medicine will play a more important role
in keeping patients out of hospitals.
As for industrial and traffic accidents, this should be dealt with through more effective preventive measures. Preventive medicine 19 [The scope of the preventive medicine is not confined
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to the control of communicable diseases or the prevention of genetic disorders or diseases alone, it also includes
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preventive medicine can be divided into three categories, namely, primary, secondary and tertiary preventions. The ideal form of prevention is primary prevention which is the avoidance or removal of the cause of disease. Secondary
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treatment can be started before irreversible damage has occurred. Tertiary prevention means an effective management of established disease so as to minimise disability or handicap. Secondary and tertiary prevention involve many technical details, such as those relating
to diagnosis and treatment and which perhaps only the medical profession will be interested. I,
I, therefore, shall today concentrate on the discussion of primary
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