num_pages: 160
description: This book explores and analyzes the options for preventive medicine, considered from various viewpoints - epidemiological, sociological, political, practical, and ethical. The uniting theme is the concept of health as an issue for populations as well as for individuals. This has applicationsthroughout medicine and these are illustrated by a wide range of examples. The book will be valuable to professionals and students in public health, epidemiology and health economics. It will also be of interest to health service managers and planners, clinicians interested in prevention, and allthose concerned with health as a public issue.
language: English
title: The Strategy of Preventive Medicine
titlecomplete: The Strategy of Preventive Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications)
genres: Medicine, Science, Health, Nonfiction, Textbooks
ratings_count: 82
publisher: Oxford University Press