Medicine is prescribed and drugs are not
Currently its somewhere around 135 billion dollars. It got higher than 1998
Answer: Determinants of health events: (the how and why): factors and exposures, characteristics, behaviors, and contexts that determine (or influence) the patterns: individuals, relational, social, etc.
Explanation: Epidemiologists investigate determinants of health events. How the disease came into existence, the factors affecting it transmission (both biotic and abiotic). Characters of the causative organisms and vector. The effects of disease on individuals (pathology), its distribution, and control.
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