Holland, W.W.|Knox, G.|Detels, R.

Oxford textbook of public health: volume 1, influences of public health - 2nd ed. - Oxford Oxford University Press 1991 - xix, 561p.

Presents the scope of public health with the many changes which have occurred in the field and has expanded the scope to include issues of developing countries and presents the perspective of public leaders including the Director General of the World Health Organisation on stategies to resolve these existing and anticipated public health problems. tackles such difficult issues as how to prioritize disparate public health problems, how to identify and implement cost effective strategies, the need for mobilizing the community through community involvement and the need for a comprehensive rather than an issue/disease oriented approach for the resolution of public health problems.

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Public Health|Public Policy|Disease|Health Services|Ethics

WA 100 .H6 V.1 1991