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Public health at the crossroads : achievements and prospects / Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521832918
  • 9780521832915
  • 052154047X
  • 9780521540476
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1 22
LOC classification:
  • RA441 .B43 2004
Contents:
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.
Review: "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 prospects for public health will improve only if health in a broad sense becomes a central concern of the policy-making process." "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." "This book will be of interest to all health professionals."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 362.1 BEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A472921B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 362.1 BEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A472920B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 prospects for public health will improve only if health in a broad sense becomes a central concern of the policy-making process." "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." "This book will be of interest to all health professionals."--BOOK JACKET.

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