World health

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : J & A. Churchill LTD, 1967Edition: 2 edDescription: x; 373 p. : il. bynSubject(s):
Contents:
PART ONE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Meaning of Health and of Public Health. -- 2. The Conflict of Living Matter -- PART TWO -- HEALTH AND DISEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- 3. The World's Mantle of Disease -- 4. The Developed and Under-developed Worlds -- PART THREE -- THE PURSUIT OF HEALTH -- 5. Geography -- 6. Beliefs and Customs -- 7. Family Life -- 8. Population -- 9. Occupation -- 10. Town Life -- 11. Hospitals -- 12. Food -- 13. Industrialization -- PART FOUR -- PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- 14. The European Movement -- 15. Newcomers to Public Health after World War I -- 16. Newcomers to Public Health after World War II -- 17. A Permanent Framework of Public Health -- PART FIVE -- INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH -- 18. From Quarantine to World Health -- 19. The World Health Organization -- PART SIX -- THE MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH -- 20. The Purpose of Vital and Health Statistics -- 21. The Sources of Vital and Health Statistics -- 22. The Inadequacy of Vital and Health Statistics. -- 23. The Standardization of Recording. -- 24. The Measurement of Morbidity -- 25. The Use of Sampling in Morbidity Surveys and Public Health Investigations -- 26. Methods of Collecting Data. -- 27. Planning and Conducting the Survey -- 28. The Presentation of Data -- 29. The Statistical Needs of Under-developed Countries -- I-VI Abbreviated Lists of the International Standard Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death. -- I. List A- List of 150 Causes for Tabulation of Morbidity and Mortality -- II. List B- List of 50 Causes for Tabulation of Mortality -- III. List C- List of 70 Causes for Tabulation of Morbidity -- IV. List D- List of 300 Causes for Tabulation of Hospital Morbidity -- V. List P- List of 100 Causes for Tabulation of Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality -- VI. List of 51 Causes for the use of Medical Auxiliary Personnel -- VII. Measurement of Morbidity: Rates of Inception and Prevalence -- VIII. International Standard Classification of Occupations (1967). -- References -- Index
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PART ONE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Meaning of Health and of Public Health. -- 2. The Conflict of Living Matter -- PART TWO -- HEALTH AND DISEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- 3. The World's Mantle of Disease -- 4. The Developed and Under-developed Worlds -- PART THREE -- THE PURSUIT OF HEALTH -- 5. Geography -- 6. Beliefs and Customs -- 7. Family Life -- 8. Population -- 9. Occupation -- 10. Town Life -- 11. Hospitals -- 12. Food -- 13. Industrialization -- PART FOUR -- PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- 14. The European Movement -- 15. Newcomers to Public Health after World War I -- 16. Newcomers to Public Health after World War II -- 17. A Permanent Framework of Public Health -- PART FIVE -- INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH -- 18. From Quarantine to World Health -- 19. The World Health Organization -- PART SIX -- THE MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH -- 20. The Purpose of Vital and Health Statistics -- 21. The Sources of Vital and Health Statistics -- 22. The Inadequacy of Vital and Health Statistics. -- 23. The Standardization of Recording. -- 24. The Measurement of Morbidity -- 25. The Use of Sampling in Morbidity Surveys and Public Health Investigations -- 26. Methods of Collecting Data. -- 27. Planning and Conducting the Survey -- 28. The Presentation of Data -- 29. The Statistical Needs of Under-developed Countries -- I-VI Abbreviated Lists of the International Standard Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death. -- I. List A- List of 150 Causes for Tabulation of Morbidity and Mortality -- II. List B- List of 50 Causes for Tabulation of Mortality -- III. List C- List of 70 Causes for Tabulation of Morbidity -- IV. List D- List of 300 Causes for Tabulation of Hospital Morbidity -- V. List P- List of 100 Causes for Tabulation of Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality -- VI. List of 51 Causes for the use of Medical Auxiliary Personnel -- VII. Measurement of Morbidity: Rates of Inception and Prevalence -- VIII. International Standard Classification of Occupations (1967). -- References -- Index