Mankind, Disease and Technology: A Cat, Mouse and Fiddle Game

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  • Srinivasan Govindaraj Visiting Researcher, Ryerson University,Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17140/PHOJ-4-135

Keywords:

thology, and perform three dimensional

Abstract

Mankind has been playing a cat and mouse game with diseases almost from the start of human civilization. Sometimes we have had a resounding victory, but sometimes disease has won, nearly wiping out populations in its path. Be it plague, polio, smallpox, cholera or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) all have left an indelible impression on humans. Just as in warfare, all these diseases have been controlled by essentially being one step ahead of them. Hence the fiddle or third factor has been technology, which could help us win this crucial time race.

References

Philips Future Health Index 2019: Philips Future Health Index 2019 finds US among leaders in EMR use and AI spend, but overall digital health technology adoption mixed. Philips News Centre. Web site. https://www.usa.philips.com/a-w/about/ news/archive/standard/news/press/2019/20190717-philips-future-health-index-2019-finds-us-among-leaders.html. Accessed October 14, 2019.

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Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

Srinivasan Govindaraj. (2019). Mankind, Disease and Technology: A Cat, Mouse and Fiddle Game. Public Health - Open Journal, 4(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.17140/PHOJ-4-135

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019): Volume 4 Issue 2 2019

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