Population Health: Concepts and Methods Pdf

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Edition: 2
Release: 2004-09-23
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195158547
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Population Health pdf
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Population health encompasses traditional public health and preventive medicine but emphasizes the full range of health determinants affecting the entire population rather than only ill or high-risk individuals. The population health approach integrates the social and biological, the quantitative and qualitative, recognizing the importance of social and cultural factors in practice and research.
This text is organized around the logical sequence of studying and attempting to improve the health of populations; measuring health status and disease burden, identifying and modeling health determinants, assessing health risks and inferring causation, designing research studies, planning interventions, and evaluating health programs. The second edition incorporates many new topics that reflect changes in contemporary public health concerns and our response to them; as well as shifts in research directions. These include lifecourse approaches to health, gene-environment interactions, emerge Download Population Health for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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