ISBN-13: 9781909368958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 374 str.
ISBN-13: 9781909368958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 374 str.
First published to broad acclaim in the early 1980s, today Donaldsons' Essential Public Health is widely adopted as the standard text for public health students and practitioners across a range of disciplines. The text brings together, in one volume, the principles and applications of epidemiology, the main health problems experienced by populations and by the main groups within them, the strategies for intervention to promote health and prevent disease, the main themes underlying health policy formulation, and a description of the provision of health services. This fourth edition marks the biggest change to the book in 20 years, introducing an entirely new schedule of chapters reflecting modern thinking on the scope of public health. While the core elements still cover the position for the UK, each chapter is set in the global health context. Brand new and entirely revised chapters include: