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Public Health: A Very Short Introduction

By Virginia , Berridge

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780199688463, 9780191002151, 9780191785481, 0191785482
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1874077 bytes)
Series
Very short introductions
Pages
illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Public Health;Public health;Public health--History

Description

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.;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. 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.

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