Public health isconcerned 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 that focuses on the social, ...
In this book, Doug Brugge and H. Patricia Hynes relate experience of multiple community collaborations across the United States and highlight the lessons to be learned for those involved in or embarking on community-collaborative research.
Linking the health Millennium Development Goals? agenda with the broader poverty-reduction agenda, this book is a valuable resource for policymakers in developing countries and development practitioners working in the health, nutrition, and ...
A collection of Rudolf Virchow's papers, presented for the first time in translation. Virchow (1821-1902) was an eminent German pathological anatomist who established cellular pathology and coined many important pathological terms.
Reducing Inequalities in Health: a European Perspective: * brings together an unrivalled collection of contemporary data on successful policies and interventions * compares differences in approach in several European countries * includes ...
This volume analyzes the reasons for this increase in inequalities and its consequences for the well-being of populations. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries analyze the different dimensions of this topic.