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Public health at the crossroads : achievements and prospects / Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beaglehole, R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is an introduction to public health as a discipline and a critique of its recent development. This extensively revised edition reviews major health trends, the current state of the world's health, and the latest estimates of the global burden of disease.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Health, disease and the health transition; 2 Global health: past trends and present challenges; 3 Contemporary global health issues; 4 Evolution of epidemiology: ideas and methods; 5 The current state of epidemiology: achievements and limitations; 6 Challenges for epidemiology: historical and contemporary; 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-54053-2
- 9786610540532
- 0-511-21536-3
- 0-511-21715-3
- 0-511-21178-3
- 0-511-31577-5
- 0-511-21355-7
- OCLC:
- 171139138
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