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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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Autor principal: Baum, Fran
Altres autors: Fran Baum
Idioma:Undetermined
English
Publicat: South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Sumari: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...
Descripció física:xvi, 607 p.
ill.
25 cm
ISBN:0195515528
9780195515527