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Public health 101 series introduction to public health. Translated into 7 languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students understanding of applied public health in their own setting. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Public health must address everything from poverty to. List of books and articles about public health online. Written in engaging, nontechnical language, this best selling text explains in clear terms the multi disciplinary strategies and methods used for measuring, assessing, and promoting public health. This book should be considered a must read for all public health students and scholars, and it resonates with the social justice mission of slus college for public health and social justice. Remarkably, the pentateuch is regarded as the earliest evidence we have of sound public health and sanitary practices. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. The this is public health book club is to foster discussion between prospective students, current students, and public health professionals. Introduction to public healthpublic health 101 seriescdc.
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