But as I've posted previously, and as you can find trivially easily via Google, of the 30 year increase in life expectancy in the US, a minimum of 25 of those years have come from public health improvements rather than from modern medicine.
Do you categorize vaccination as modern medicine, or as public health? Is there no overlap, some overlap, or much overlap in the concepts of "modern medicine" and "public health"?
Do you categorize vaccination as modern medicine, or as public health?
It depends on what point you're trying to make. E.g. if you're talking about contribution of pharmaceutical drugs to longevity, then it doesn't make sense to include vaccines since they're not drugs. If you're talking about the contributions of modern medicine as a whole, then it make sense to include all the vaccines developed roughly since Dr. Gold popularized the gold standard clinical trials, so sometime in the mid to late 1950s. Or if you're talking about the contributions of the western medical system as a whole since its inception, then it probably makes sense to include all vaccines, etc.
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Do you categorize vaccination as modern medicine, or as public health? Is there no overlap, some overlap, or much overlap in the concepts of "modern medicine" and "public health"?
It depends on what point you're trying to make. E.g. if you're talking about contribution of pharmaceutical drugs to longevity, then it doesn't make sense to include vaccines since they're not drugs. If you're talking about the contributions of modern medicine as a whole, then it make sense to include all the vaccines developed roughly since Dr. Gold popularized the gold standard clinical trials, so sometime in the mid to late 1950s. Or if you're talking about the contributions of the western medical system as a whole since its inception, then it probably makes sense to include all vaccines, etc.