| Edition |
Fifteenth edition. |
| Description |
xxxiii, 1367 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine. 14th ed. c1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Public health and preventive medicine: trends and guideposts -- Epidemiology and public health -- Ethics and public health policy -- Public health and population -- Public health informatics -- Health disparities and community-based participatory research: issues and illustrations -- Genetic determinants of disease and genetics in public health -- Control of communicable diseases -- Diseases controlled primarily by vaccination -- Epidemiology and trends in sexually transmitted diseases -- The epidemiology and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- Infection spread by close personal contact -- Diseases spread by food and water -- Control of infections in institutions: healthcare-associated infections -- Viral diseases transmitted primarily by arthropod vectors -- Diseases transmitted primarily from animals to humans (zoonoses) -- Opportunistic fungal infections -- Other infection-related diseases of public health import -- The status of environmental health -- Toxicology -- Environmental and ecological risk assessment -- Biomarkers -- Asbestos and other fibers -- Coal worker's lung diseases -- Silicosis -- Health significance of metal exposures -- Diseases associated with exposure to chemical substances: organic compounds -- Polychlorinated biphenyls -- Polychlorinated dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans -- Brominated flame retardants -- Multiple chemical sensitivities -- Pulmonary responses to gases and particles -- Pesticides -- Temperature and health -- Ionizing radiation -- Nonionizing radiation -- Effects of the physical environment: noise as a health hazard -- Ergonomics and work-related musculoskeletal disorders -- Industrial hygiene -- Surveillance and health screening in occupational health -- Workers with disabilities. |
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Environmental justice: from global to local -- The health of hired farmworkers -- Women workers -- Health hazards of child labor -- Occupational safety and health standards -- Ensuring food safety -- Water quality management and water-borne disease trends -- Hazardous waste: assessing, detecting, and remediation -- Aerospace medicine -- Housing and health -- Human health in a changing world -- Health behavior research and intervention -- Tobacco: health effects and control -- Alcohol-related health problems -- Prevention of drug use and drug use disorders -- Community health promotion and disease prevention -- Risk communication-an overlooked tool for improving public health -- Health literacy -- Screening for early and asymptomatic conditions -- Cancer -- Heart disease -- Renal and urinary tract disease -- Diabetes -- Respiratory disease prevention -- Musculoskeletal disorders -- Neurological disorders -- Disabling visual disorders -- Psychiatric disorders -- Childhood cognitive disability -- Prevention of disability in older persons -- Nutrition in public health and preventive medicine -- Postmarketing medication safety surveillance: a current public health issue -- The American health-care system: structure and function -- Structure and function of the public health system in the United States -- International and global health -- Public health law -- Public health management tools -- Categorical public health sciences -- Injury control: the public health approach -- Violence in the family as a public health concern. |
| Summary |
Encompass many new diseases, conditions, and policy issues that continue to dramatically shape-and expand the influence of-public health and preventive medicine. Also has additional resources of information in preparing for the board exam in preventative medicine and public health. |
| Subject |
Public health.
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Medicine, Preventive.
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Public Health.
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Preventive Medicine.
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| Added Author |
Wallace, Robert B., 1942-
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Kohatsu, Neal.
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| Cover Title |
Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine |
| Added Title |
Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health and preventive medicine |
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Public health & preventive medicine |
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Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine.
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| ISBN |
9780071441988 alkaline paper |
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0071441980 |
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