Donaldsons' Essential Public Health

• Main Authors: Donaldson, Liam J. (Author), Rutter, Paul D. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 2018; ©2018
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Subjects: Public Health Practice; Preventive Health Services; Great Britain
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• Physical Description: xvii, 356 pages illustrations 29 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781138722019; 9781909368958

Donaldsons' Essential Public Health has been in continuous print for 35 years, evolving through successive editions. This unrivalled record of success for a textbook of public health shows the enduring appeal of its content, style, and accessibility to generations of students and practitioners. For many of today's national and global public health leaders, the book was their guide as they began their careers, their benchmark as they passed their examinations and professional accreditation, and remains their companion as a source of reference and refreshed knowledge for teaching and practice. The book brings together, in one volume, the main health problems experienced by populations and by the key groups within them, the strategies for promoting health and preventing disease, the principles and applications of epidemiology, the main themes of health policy, and a description of health service provision