Calcutta Medical College and the Dispensaries: The Emergence of Modern Public Health in India
Journal: Preventive Medicine Research & Reviews
Year: 2024

Introduction Public health is an umbrella term encompassing various professions, policies and programmes that promote positive community-wide health outcomes. It is also an interdisciplinary field. Epidemiology is a later incorporation within the ambit of public health. Since ancient times to modernity, the concept of public health has incrementally developed – from personal hygiene, to ‘medical police’ to anti-sepsis to state intervention, to name a few. But in colonial India, European science,