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Public health : a very short introduction / Virginia Berridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berridge, Virginia, author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions.
- Very short introductions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- Public health--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- This 'Very Short Introduction' outlines the nature of public health in our world today and places public health in its historical context from the earliest times, analysing in particular the changes in public health regulation through the nineteenth century and the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
- Contents:
- What is public health?
- Current challenges
- The origins of public health into the 1700s
- Sanitation to education 1800-1900s
- The rise of lifestyle 1900-1980s
- Tropical and international public health
- Present and future in the light of history.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-100215-1
- 0-19-100214-3
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