Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-10-11
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0813141230
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer a concise overview of this burgeoning field, emphasizing that the need for effective services has never been greater.Designed as a supplemental text for introductory courses in public health practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Contemporary Public Health provides historical background that contextualizes the current state of the field and explores the major issues practitioners face today. It addresses essential topics such as the social and ecological determinants of health and their impact on practice, marginalized populations, the role of community-oriented primary care, the importance of services and systems research, accreditation, and the organizational landscape of th Download Contemporary Public Health for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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