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Twentieth century challenges [electronic resource] / edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Public health : the development of a discipline ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--History.
- Public health.
- Public health--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (911 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Published in 2008, the first volume of Public Health focused on issues from the dawn of western civilization through the Progressive era. Volume 2 defines the public health challenges of the twentieth century--this important reference covers not only how the discipline addressed the problems of disease, but how it responded to economic, environmental, occupational, and social factors that impacted public health on a global scale. The volume is enhanced with a detailed chronology of public health events, as well as appendices that contain many of the original documents that ushered public
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Population health issues
- pt. 2. Diseases, therapies, and prevention
- pt. 3. Improving public health.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-27272-1
- 0-8135-5100-5
- 9786613815125
- OCLC:
- 804662817
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