Public Health: The Development of a Discipline, Twentieth-Century Challenges

by Dona Schneider

Book Overview

Published in 2008, the first volume of Public Health focused on issues from the dawn of western civilization through the Progressive era. Volume 2 defines the public health challenges of the twentieth century--this important reference covers not only how the discipline addressed the problems of disease, but how it responded to economic, environmental, occupational, and social factors that impacted public health on a global scale. Major illnesses such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813550092
• ISBN13: 9780813550091
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 914 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"