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In the twenty-first century public health is under considerable threat. Environmental deterioration, terrorism and war, growing economic inequalities, declining social capital, neo-liberal economic policies and rapid economic globalisation all pose threats to health. Public health is concerned with...
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South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,New York
Oxford University Press
2003
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | In the twenty-first century public health is under considerable threat. Environmental deterioration, terrorism and war, growing economic inequalities, declining social capital, neo-liberal economic policies and rapid economic globalisation all pose threats to health. Public health is concerned with reducing these threats and finding healthy solutions to them. In the past public health was dominated by medical models of practice but is now increasingly multi-disciplinary in that it focuses on the social, economic and environmental basis of health... |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 607 p. ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195515528 9780195515527 |