The People's Health
Subtitle: Public Health in Australia, 1788-1950 [Part of two volume set] (Contributions in Medical Studies)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: March 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780313310904
Subjects: Medical / Nursing; History: World; Ethnic Studies - General; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Public Health; Australia & New Zealand - General; Health Care Issues; Australia; History; Medical care; Medicine; Public Health
First sentence: In his influential history of public health, originally published in 1958, Rosen sought to explain the rise of modern public health across Europe from the sixteenth century in terms of two basic factors: first, progress in understanding of the nature and causes of disease (especially infections), as the sine qua non of prevention; and second, the political, economic and social context that determined the application of such knowledge.