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K-1 Medical History
K-1 Medical History
McKeown thesis
Resource allocation
How best to fight disease
Medicine is not always the answer
II. Paradox of Medicine
1. SES and disease
The poor carry the greatest disease burden
• Public health
I made a special study of the STOVIA (the medical
school for the natives). After all, most of those
promoting the awakening of Asia were doctors, and
not lawyers as was the case in Europe. Perhaps the
movements for enlightenment in Europe were
motivated by the violation of people’s sense of justice.
In Asia the awakening was inflamed by the awareness
that society was sick and must be cured.