The Public Health Approach
Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19
$96.18
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2023
Summary
How public health’s distinctive way of approaching human health has evolved by trial and error over a series of historic epidemics.
The field of public health has developed a distinctive way of approaching human health by focusing on the health of the population to improve the health of the individual. In The Public Health Approach, Dr. Alfredo Morabia narrates the history of this population thinking and how it has helped address and combat a series of histor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421446783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421446782 |
| Author: | Alfredo Morabia |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Dr. Alfredo Morabia’s book takes us through many fascinating chapters in the history of public health….compelling.
—Family Medicine
…an enjoyable read.
—Kenneth J. Rothman, DrPH, Boston University, European Journal of Epidemiology
fascinating
—Health and History
Alfredo Morabia
Alfredo Morabia, MD (NEW YORK, NY), is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health, a professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, and a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the author of Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries and the editor of A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts.
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