Public Health and Aging

Book Overview

The role of public health in the planning, coordination, and delivery of health promotion and disease prevention services to older people living outside of institutional settings.

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Current issues in the public health arena have challenged the system to broaden its traditional focus on infectious disease to include chronic disease as well. As this change in emphasis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801855594
• ISBN13: 9780801855597
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"