Disease prevention as social change
Subtitle: the state, society and public health in the U.S., France, Great Britain, and Canada
By: Constance A. Nathanson.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780871546449
Subjects: Health promotion -- Cross-cultural studies; Medicine, Preventive -- Cross-cultural studies; Preventive health services -- Cross-cultural studies; Medical policy -- Cross-cultural studies; Health Policy -- trends -- Canada; Health Policy -- trends -- France; Health Policy -- trends -- Great Britain; Health Policy -- trends -- United States; Primary Prevention -- trends -- Canada; Primary Prevention -- trends -- France; Primary Prevention -- trends -- Great Britain; Primary Prevention -- trends -- United States; Public Health -- trends -- Canada; Public Health -- trends -- France; Public Health -- trends -- Great Britain; Public Health -- trends -- United States; Social Change -- Canada; Social Change -- France; Social Change -- Great Britain; Social Change -- United States
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The 19th century : from miasmas to microbes; title: Infant mortality; title: Tuberculosis; title: Smoking; title: AIDS/drugs; title: Engines of policy change : the state and civil society; title: Experts and zealots; title: Political cultures and constructions of risk.