The Rise of Modern Medicine

The Rise of Modern Medicine and How It Affects How We Interact with Nature

Over the last four decades, more and more study has been focused on determining if there is a connection between the altering interaction between humans and the environment and how it affects people's health. However, examining whether there is a correlation requires a multidisciplinary study of its scope and underlying processes.

The disputes surrounding the connection between humans and nature are first reviewed in this article, after which they are analyzed and reformulated from an interdisciplinary standpoint. The World Health Organization's definition of "health" is then used to investigate the notion and historical development of the term. Combining these ideas, a conceptual model is then developed to study the link between humans and the environment and how it affects human health. It is believed that using an interdisciplinary approach may help one get a greater knowledge of the difficulties associated with achieving optimum health at the interface between humans and their environment. Research has shown the myriad ways in which people are connected to the natural world throughout the last century and has attracted attention to the interaction between humans and nature. Examples of this include how people like natural settings, the sustainability of natural resources, and the advantages of spending time in nature for one's health.

Among these instances, the effects of the connection between people and the environment on people's health have drawn increasing attention as study literature demonstrates a link. Such a relationship has served as the foundation for a wide range of theoretical and empirical studies in domains that, until recently, were mostly kept apart.

Numerous descriptive models have been developed since the late nineteenth century to capture the characteristics of human and environmental health as well as their interrelationships. The Wheel of Human Needs, the Environment of Health, the Mandala of Health, the Healthy Communities, the One Health, and the Bioecological Systems Theory are a few of these.

Each, however, has not adequately balanced between the biological, social, and geographical views, taking into account all pertinent components. The difficulties with the already complicated research basis in terms of its idea, evidence base, measurement, and strategy framework are partly to blame for this. To get a better understanding and pinpoint causative axes, more consideration must be given to the complexity of various characteristics, interlinkages, processes, and interactions.

The connections between the interaction between people and the environment and human health are discussed in this article. It starts by going through each of their notions and theoretical frameworks. These ideas will be combined to find areas of convergence as well as current studies on the possible health effects related to how closely humans are related to the environment and lifestyle choices.

A conceptual model that is still under development is suggested as a result, one that considers both the larger environment and animals in the context of how they relate to people and the human population as a whole. To assist a fuller understanding of the complexities involved in improving human health, the model blends theoretical ideas and empirical techniques from various study domains discussed in this review.

Reviewing the different links at the intersection of mankind and the natural world is a broad topic. The four research disciplines (Evolutionary Biology, Social Economics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Environmentalism) that have focused the most on exploring this topic area are instead summarized here.

I then list points of convergence amongst these links to depict the underlying interaction between humans and nature. It is hoped that by combining these many branches of study, the rising problem of humanity's interaction with the environment and its effects on health may be understood at a deeper level. This is due to the possibility that looking at the human-nature interaction from a single discipline viewpoint would provide incomplete results that ignore other significant sources as well as the complexity of interlinkages, causal directions, processes, and relations.

The field of study known as evolutionary biology emerged soon after Darwin's Theory of Evolution. It is about how genetic structure and developmental processes across time and place shape adaptive variety in all animal and plant species. Science has made some important scientific strides since its inception more than a century ago, but there is still a great deal of disagreement on its fundamental issues, such as the pace of evolutionary change and the characteristics of its transitional mechanisms (such as natural selection). This is due in part to the multidisciplinary structure of the study area, which was built on the pillars of genetics, molecular biology, phylogeny, systematics, physiology, ecology, and population dynamics.