Public Health through Ayurveda
Public Health Through Ayurveda
Public health means the science and the art of preventing disease,prolonging life,and promoting health through all orgnised measures,wether public or private.Public health activities aim to provide healthier environment to survive.According to the country cooperation strategy of WHO,India accounts for 21% of global burden disease.Ayurveda is belived to be the oldest medical science of human cultivation.It is the science of life,as it describes the mere treatment of diseases and encloses a wide collection of principles and practices which deals with each individual.Public health as a displine is mainly seen as a part of community medicine,which deals specially with the prevention of diseases.This is more akin to the primary aim and objective of Ayurveda.Ayurveda describes many aspects like infectious diseases,immunity,nutrition etc,in relation to public health.This is a compendious perspective of the present study which will be discussed in detail in the main event
