Community health
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Community health
Mosby, c1994
7th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edition of "Community Health" provides students with information on preventive medicine, public health, school health and self-care. It provides relevance to the material, and discusses such topics as unresolved political problems of child abuse, AIDS, drug abuse and alcoholism. The text presents historical, sociological, epidemiological, behavioural, economic, administrative and organizational perspectives to the subject, and emphasizes health education approaches to promote individual and collective action.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Foundations: through the centuries
- community, ecology, organization and health
- community diversity, demography and epidemiology, human behaviour and community health education. Part 2 Community health through the life span: reproductive, infant and child health
- adolescent health
- adult health
- ageing and health of the elderly. Part 3 Promoting community health: community mental and social health
- community recreation and fitness
- communicable disease control
- lifestyle and community health promotion. Part 4 Environmental health promotion: community injury control
- community water and waste management
- housing, occupational and public environments
- food and vector control
- control of air, radiation and noise pollution. Part 5 Health resources and services: world and natural context of community health services
- state or provincial health resources and services
- community health resources and services
- personal and consumer health services.
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