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The public health approach : population thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19 / Alfredo Morabia, MD.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morabia, Alfredo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--History.
- Public health.
- Communicable diseases.
- Public Health Practice--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Population Health--history.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Social Determinants of Health--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health Practice--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Population Health--history.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Social Determinants of Health--history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This book tells the history of how the field of public health arose and developed via a distinctive way of approaching human health. This "public health approach" is marked by abstracting away from the health of particular individuals and studying populations of individuals and how a variety of factors affect population health"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Public Health
- Plague
- Smallpox
- Cholera
- Tuberculosis
- Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
- HIV/AIDS
- Social Determinants of Health
- The 1918 Influenza and SARS/COVID-19
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421446783
- 1421446782
- OCLC:
- 1371013854
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