Public Health at the Crossroads
Subtitle: Achievements and Prospects
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521832915
Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics; World health; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Dentistry - General; Health Care Delivery; Public Health; Medical / Dentistry / General
First sentence: This chapter sets global health scene by introducing definitions central to an understanding of health and disease, and describes the populations and country groupings that will be used in our comparisons.