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

Informationen zum Autor Dona Schneider, Ph.D., M.P.H.,  is a professor and associate dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and the recipient of multiple teaching and service awards.David E. Lilienfeld, M.D., M.P.H., is an internationally known physician epidemiologist and medical historian. He has published extensively on the history of epidemiology and public health and is the winner of the Society of Epidemiological Research's Professors' Prize in the History of Epidemiology.Schneider and Lilienfeld are the coeditors of Public Health, Volume One (Rutgers University Press). Klappentext 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. The volume is enhanced with a detailed chronology of public health events, as well as appendices that contain many of the original documents that ushered public health into the new millennium. Zusammenfassung Examines the public health challenges of the twentieth century. It 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 are addressed! along with lifestyle concerns. Chapters also explore maternal-child and women's health! health economics and ethics! and the role of philanthropy. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHRONOLOGYLIST OF ABBREVIATIONSPART IPopulation Health Issues1. FOOD AND NUTRITIONThe Paths to the Discovery of Vitamins A and D (1967)Impact of Vitamin A Supplementation on Childhood Mortality (1986)The Nutrition Transition in Low- Income Countries: An Emerging Crisis (1994, Abridged)2. TOBACCOThe Carcinogenic Effects of Tobacco (1940)Smoking and Lung Cancer: Recent Evidence and a Discussion of Some Questions (1959, Abridged)Non- smoking Wives of Heavy Smokers Have a Higher Risk of Lung Cancer: A Study from Japan (1984)3. DENTAL HEALTHAn Investigation of Mottled Teeth (1916, Abridged)The Conclusion of a Ten- Year Study of Water Fluoridation (1956, Abridged)Diet and Oral Health (2000, Abridged)4. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHMortality in the London Fog Incident, 1952 (1953)The Removal of Lead from Gasoline: Historical and Personal Refl ections (2000)Global Climate Change and Infectious Diseases (1991)5. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTHMortality from Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers (1955)Diffuse Pleural Mesothelioma and Asbestos Exposure in the North Western Cape Province (1960, Abridged)Lung Cancer in Chloromethyl Methyl Ether Workers (1973)6. WOMEN’S HEALTHDiagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear (1943, Abridged)Introduction of the Pill and Its Impact (1999)A Global Overview of Gender- based Violence (2002)7. MATERNAL CHILD HEALTHPrevention of Infant Mortality by Breast Feeding (1912)More Folic Acid for Everyone, Now (1996)A Traditional Practice that Threatens Health— Female Circumcision (1986)PART IIDiseases, Therapies, and Prevention8. TUBERCULOSISStreptomycin: A Valuable Anti- Tuberculosis Agent (1948)The International Tuberculosis Campaign: A Pioneering Venture in Mass Vaccination and Research (1994)The Global Tuberculosis Situation and the New Control Strategy of the World Health Or ga ni za tion (1991)9. HIV/AIDSPneumocystis Pneumonia— Los Angeles (1981)Cluster of Cases of the Acquired Immune Defi ciency Syndrome: Patients Linked by Sexual Contact (1984, Abridged)AIDS—The First 20 Years (2001, Abridged)10. VACCINE- PREVENTABLE DISEASESRubella during Pregnancy (1952)Intussusception among Recipients of Rotavirus Vaccine— United States, ...

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• Authors: Dona Lilienfeld Schneider
• Assisted by: David E Lilienfeld (Editor), David E. Lilienfeld (Editor), Dona Schneider (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2011
• EAN: 9780813550091
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5009-1
• No. of pages: 914
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General