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What Is Health?
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Pages: 259
Authors: Peter Sterling
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” conce
Improving Health in the Community
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Institute of Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-05-21 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educa
The Future of Public Health
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-15 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. Th
Health Literacy
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Institute of Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-29 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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To maintain their own health and the health of their families and communities, consumers rely heavily on the health information that is available to them. This
Public Health: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Virginia Berridge
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries or department