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by John M. Last (Author) "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..." (more)
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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
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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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