Epidemiology and Community Medicine

Epidemiology and Community Medicine
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Total Pages : 494
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4293980
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Book Synopsis Epidemiology and Community Medicine by : Sidney L. Kark

Download or read book Epidemiology and Community Medicine written by Sidney L. Kark and published by McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange. This book was released on 1974 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on community health and what can be done about it. The health of a community is viewed as an interrelated network of somatic and psychologic processes associated with varying patterns of disease. The interacting triangle of disease and the somatic and psychologic characteristics of a community are presented as the starting point for epidemiologic description and for community diagnosis. A number of illustrations of this kind of thinking about health and disease are presented in the introductory section on community health. This is followed by sections on community determinants of health and disease and consepts of cause and effect using as an illustrative example the relationship between infection, disease and community health. Community health, community determinants of health and disease, some epidemiologic considerations of continuity in life experience, social and disorganization and anomie, infection disease and community health, an illustration of changing concepts of cause and effect, the community syndrome concept, community medicine and primary health care.


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