Customer Reviews

Introduction to Community Health

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This book is horrendously dry. You're about as well off reading a list of community-health related vocabulary terms as this book. This book is a series of barely connected terms and statistics. There's no through-line. The goal of the authors seems to be to stuff as much terminology into its pages as possible. Even going so far as to write full paragraphs repeating information that had been discussed previously.

Example, page 106. Under "Other Noncommunicable Disease Problems," they use an entire paragraph to state that COPD, diabetes and chronic liver disease are the 4th, 7th and 10th leading causes of death, respectively. Under an entirely different heading of "Leading Causes of Death" they proceed to say the EXACT SAME THING. Why bother? Are they getting paid by the word? That's not even including the fact that each of these topics has a sentence stating the same thing in a separate paragraph elsewhere in the book.

ONE PAGE LATER they define "Prevention" as "planning for and taking of action to prevent or forestall the occurrence of an undesirable event." You're seriously going to define a word with its root? I don't know a 3rd grade teacher who'd let that fly. "What is Prevention?" "It's when you prevent something"

Frankly, it's insulting.

If their goal was to turn away as many people from the field as possible, then mission accomplished.

Introductory books should pique the interest of curious minds, not turn them away with boredom and repetition. Community Health is such a vibrant and interesting topic, and somehow this book manages to turn it simultaneously into one of the dullest and most condescending, reads I've come across.

Either a massive re-edit or a complete re-write is called for here.

Avoid this.

This is the most ridiculously boring and worst written textbook I have ever read. It combines the most basic common sense of health, with useless statistics and words you will never use. I learned about 7 things in this book. It's mostly filled with lies of how government and other health organizations are trying hard to keep the public healthy... when we all know that just isn't true. Everyone is just trying to make money. In conclusion... DO NOT buy this book unless you have to for a class, and if you do... my apologies!

As a college student buying books is a investment that we sometimes don't want to make. I have been in college for 2 years, and I would never even dream of buying a text book for a $1.77. I was shocked when I saw the price! I am the type of student that needs the book even if the professor says we don't need it. So it was awesome getting this book at this price. It was $177 or something close to that at my schools book store. I got my book two days later as promised with the student account thing that Amazon has! This book has some great information and is an easy read.

I waited a little longer to receive this book but it was still within the time frame I was told would get it. The book was in great condition when I received it

The book I ordered was recieved in a timely manner and it's condition was much better than expected.

I needed this book for a Health Education course. I was sore after being ripped off for a similar book at the college campus bookstore, where I paid $186 for a book that sold for $100 on Amazon.com. Disappointed with that purchase I came back to Amazon.com to purchase this book, new, for a nearly one third of the campus bookstore price.

The book gives a very broad but thorough overview of community health. I like the format and would surely reccommend it to others

I ordered the book and it was sent out promptly. I have no complaints!

The product itself was in good condition and their were no problems with it. On the other hand, the shipping was horrible. The site said it was to be shipped in 5-7 days i think and I needed it by a certain time. The book didn't show up for alomst 2 weeks. I was upset because i paid for the shipping and didn't recevie my book in the specified time period.

The book was shipped really fast and as the same condition as it was described!

This book came exactly as described. It took less than a week for me to receive it. I'm very happy with the book and the service from Amazon.

I would love to order with them again. They responded quickly to emails and shipping was very fast