Population Health: Concepts and Methods

by T. Kue Young

Book Overview

Population health encompasses traditional public health and preventive medicine but emphasizes the full range of health determinants affecting the entire population rather than only ill or high-risk individials. The population health approach integrates the social and biological, the quantitative and qualitative, recognizing the importance of social and cultural factors in practice and research. This text is organized around the key objectives of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019511972X
• ISBN13: 9780195119725
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Great textbook

This is a high-quality textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in public health and health sciences fields. It should be one of the main references for any health researcher or practitioner as well.

Population Health

This is a very well orgenized and clearly written interesting book. It is very coherent and fluently read and suits an introductory level course for students and professionals focusing on epidemiology, medical research and public health. Every chapter includes several interesting case studies and exercises, assisting in learning. A significant portion of the literature cited, is unfortunately old .