Application and challenges of medical physics in population medicine / 中国基层医药

ABSTRACT

The term "population medicine" refers to a branch of clinical medicine that focuses on both individual health care and group health enhancement, even for the benefit of humanity as a whole. It encompasses a wide range of comprehensive health care practices, including "health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, control, treatment, and rehabilitation" and is closely related to the theoretical and technological advancements in medical physics. The primary challenge that medical physics currently faces is how to best utilize its technological advancements to serve the need of the development of "population medicine".