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Jan Kirk Carney, MD, MPH
ISBN:9781284225235
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Navigate eBook Access for A Concise History of Public Health: From Past to Present is a digital-only eBook . Read your digital textbook online or offline, enhance your learning with interactive tools, and make personal notes. The eBook provides a personal, interactive, and collaborative learning experience on computers, tablets, and mobile devices.
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A History of Public Health: From Past to Present uses a structured format to study public health from antiquity to the present time. After a brief introduction, this concise text illuminates defining moments in public health history through stories that illustrate people, principles, and challenges. These are followed by a discussion of history's relevance to contemporary practice. Suggestions for additional study, discussion questions, and references complete each chapter.
- Emphasis on selected narratives - more detailed stories - to highlight defining moments in public health history and help readers to remember key historical events, their significance, and determine their relevance to today's issues and practice.
- Easily accessible references and primary sources (historical newspapers government documents, contemporary textbooks, papers and journal articles) are included for additional study and context.
- Ample visuals and graphics highlight people, priorities, art, public opinion, and trends relevant to the time period, public health issue, and social/cultural context.
- Each chapter highlights the relevance of public health history to contemporary practice.
- Many transformative public health topics and current public health issues are covered (e.g. environmental awakening of the 70s and its relevance to climate change today)
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