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Public health at the crossroads : achievements and prospects /
"This book is an introduction to public health as a discipline, and a critique of its recent development. Identifying poverty as the greatest continuing threat to health worldwide, the authors review epidemiological, demographic and public-health trends internationally, and argue that the prosp...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Preface
- Part I. Global Health: 1. Health, disease and the health transition
- 2. Global health: past trends and present challenges
- 3. Contemporary global health issues
- Part II. Epidemiology: 4. Evolution of epidemiology: ideas and methods
- 5. The current state of epidemiology: achievements and limitations
- 6. Challenges for epidemiology
- Part III. Public Health: 7. Public health themes: historical and contemporary
- 8. Public health organisation and practice in wealthy countries
- 9. Public health organisation and practice in poor countries
- 10. Public health at the crossroads
- Index.