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American Public Health Association
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Arthur Newsholme
Author_Dorothy Porter
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Central Government
Classic Welfare State
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Collegium Medicum
Contagious Diseases Acts
disease prevention strategies
epidemiological history
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eugenics and reproduction
family welfare
Health Administration
health policy analysis
historical development of public health systems
Human Immune Deficiency Virus
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Large Families
Marine Hospital Service
Medical Police
medicine
Morbus Gallicus
MRC's Study
newsholme
North American Free Trade Agreement
political issues
population
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Public Administration
Public Health Administration
Public Health History
public health provision
Public Health Reform
Public Hygiene Movement
quantitative health research
reform
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Sanitary Idea
Sea Water
social
Social Hygiene
Social Hygiene Movement
social medicine
Viscount Morpeth
Welfare Reforms
Product details
- ISBN 9780415122443
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:
* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times
* the Enlightenment and its effects
* centralization in Victorian Britain
* localization of health care in the United States
* population issues and family welfare
* the rise of the classic welfare state
* attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.
