Open AccessHospitals and Public Health: Conflicting Or Complementing Each Other
Author(s) -
Inayat Thaver,
Nadia Khalid
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of bahria university medical and dental college
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9482
pISSN - 2220-7562
DOI - 10.51985/jbumdc2019026
Subject(s) - greeks , meaning (existential) , sri lanka , latin americans , word (group theory) , history , public health , medicine , ancient history , nursing , linguistics , psychology , philosophy , south asia , psychotherapist
Hospitals - the original facilities for the sick date back to the temples dedicated to “healing gods” in Egyptians and Greeks. The oldest architectural evidence can be dated back to 9th Century AD in Sri Lanka. The word “hospital” comes from the Latin word “hoses” for host or “hospitium” meaning a place to entertain1