Title: Preventive and community medicine /
Authors: MacMahon, Brian,; Clark, Duncan W.; Clark, Duncan W.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Physical description: xi, 794 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC class: R
Contents: A vocabulary for preventive and community medicine / Duncan W. Clark -- Causes and entities of disease / Brian MacMahon -- Sources of health data in the United States / Philip S. Lawrence -- Indices of community health / Joseph G. Feldman -- Epidemiologic methods / Brian MacMahon -- Experimental trial and program review / George B. Hutchison -- Community prevention and control / Duncan W. Clark -- Injury control / William Haddon, Jr. and Susan P. Baker -- Prevention of adverse effects related to drug therapy / Paul D. Stolley -- Prenatal and perinatal causes of early death and defect / Carol W. Buck -- Diseases of the mouth / Kenneth J. Rothman -- Diseases of blood and blood-forming tissues / Stanley L. Lee and Bernard D. Gussoff -- Disease of the cardiovascular system / Jeremiah Stamler -- Renal and urinary tract disorders / Edward H. Kass -- Diseases of the skin / Lawrence Frank and Stephen J. Danziger -- Alimentary disorders / Ascher J. Segall -- Neurological disorders / David C. Poskanzer -- Mental retardation / Zena A. Stein and Mervyn Susser -- Acute respiratory infections / Hjordis M. Foy and J. Thomas Grayston -- Chronic respiratory disease other than cancer and tuberculosis / Frank E. Speizer -- Tuberculosis / Phyllis Q. Edwards -- Acute infections of the alimentary tract / E. Russell Alexander -- Nosocomial infection / Elizbeth Barrett-Connor -- Sexually transmitted diseases / Ralph H. Henderson -- Epidemiology and prevention of parasitic diseases in the United States / Donald Heyneman -- Drug and alcohol abuse / Donald B. Louria -- Cancer / Brian MacMahon -- Metabolic disorders / Julie E. Buring and Brian MacMahon -- The physicial and chemical environment / James L. Whittenberger -- Food, nutrition, and public health / Daphne A. Roe -- Prevention in the medical care of children / Kenneth D. Rogers -- Occupation and health / J. Wister Meigs -- Screening and early detection of disease / Robert M. Thorner -- Health of the U.S. population / Joyce K. Walsh and Joseph G. Feldman -- Economics of health ; Health care financing / Herbert E. Klarman -- Patterns of medical practice / Jeffrey A. Cutler and Sidney Shindell -- Legal regulation of medical practice / William J. Curran -- Medical peer review : medical regulation in medical practice ; Health activities of state and local government ; Health resources : Federal Administration and regulation ; Publicly aided personal health services ; Mental health services ; Federal disease prevention and consumer protection ; Federal regulation of environmental hazards / Duncan W. Clark.
Notes: First edition entered under D. Clark and entitled : Preventive medicine.