The Public Health Approach

Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19

Alfredo Morabia

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Johns Hopkins University Press
17 October 2023

Public health & preventive medicine; History of medicine

"""This book tells the history of how the field of public health arose and developed via a distinctive way of approaching human health. This ""public health approach"" is marked by abstracting away from the health of particular individuals and studying populations of individuals and how a variety of factors affect population health""--"

By: Alfredo Morabia
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781421446783
ISBN 10: 1421446782
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 17 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. Public Health 2. Plague 3. Smallpox 4. Cholera 5. Tuberculosis 6. Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases 7. HIV/AIDS 8. Social Determinants of Health 9. 1918 Influenza And SARS/COVID-19 Epilogue: The Public Health Approach Appendix: How Old Is the Public Health Approach? Acknowledgements References Notes Index

Alfredo Morabia, MD (NEW YORK, NY), is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health, a professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, and a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the author of Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries and the editor of A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts.