title: Application of PHEL - 'Public Health Epidemiological Logic' of Public Health Intervention and Public Health Impact.
abstract: There is a growing tendency where medicalization of public health through mass therapeutics and secondary preventive measures are being substituted for primary preventive activity. Scaled-up mass therapeutic intervention in the community is being confused with public health intervention. The objective of this paper is to provide a broad public health and epidemiological criteria for public health intervention and public health impact.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, SRM University, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Rajan R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Patil
keywords: Epidemiology; primary prevention; public health impact; public health intervention