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John M. Last (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0838580807 | ISBN-13: 978-0838580806 | Publication Date: March 28, 1998 | Edition: 2

This book provides descriptions of public health problems, including historical background and ecological perspectives.

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Key Benefit: This book provides descriptions of public health problems, including historical background and ecological perspectives. It confronts the essential steps to preserving and protecting good health while equipping students with ways to organize these facts into logical patterns. Key Topics: This edition features new sections on investigating epidemics, HIV infection, radiation, diseases due to nutritional deficiency, and sociodemographic factors and world health. Market: Medical students, residents, students of public health.

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition (March 28, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0838580807
ISBN-13: 978-0838580806
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #448,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The goals of medicine, and of public health services, are to promote health, to preserve health, to restore good health when sickness occurs, and to relieve suffering. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affluent industrial nations, rich industrial nations, including neoplasms, ecologic changes, primary health care workers, biologic variables, traffic crashes, public health workers, immunizing agents

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United States, New York, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, United Kingdom, World War, United Nations, Latin America, Soviet Union, World Bank, North America, Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, European Union, Intergovernmental Panel, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy Press, John Snow, National Institutes of Health, William Farr, Working Group, Environmental Protection Agency, Epidemiol Rev, Government Printing Office, Healthy Cities

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This book cites 100 books:

A Dictionary of Epidemiology by John M. Last on 5 pages
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen on 5 pages
Causal Thinking in the Health Sciences: Concepts and Strategies of Epidemiology by Mervyn Wilfred Susser on 4 pages
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn on page 201, page 228, and page 424
Field Epidemiology by Michael B. Gregg on page 108, page 110, and Back Matter

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Building Better Health. A Handbook of Behavioral Change (PAHO Scientific Publications) by C. David Jenkins on page 18, page 355, and page 362
Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions by Kristie L Ebi on page 16, page 42, and Back Matter
The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy by Peter Chalk on page 11, and Back Matter
Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People by Barry S. Levy M.D. on page 228, and page 239

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