This book is an anthology of articles on public health discussing how it has evolved from Ancient Rome to the twenty-first century and the challenges of the future.
Profiles twelve controversial medical and scientific issues, describing each one's key aspects, background, status, and outlook, and including annotated bibliographies. Covers topics relating to illness, treatment, and health policy; managed care; and the future of health policy.
Provides contemporary and historical information, including statistics, on several aspects of the U.S.'s health care system, including practitioners, institutions, quality, cost, insurance, comparisons with other countries, and public opinion.
Presents a series of essays that examines the global effect of infectious diseases and the political and medical response to such things as AIDS, SARS, smallpox, and bioterrorism.
Discusses the use and development of vaccines, the field of epidemiology, the role of the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, and more, and covers pioneering scientists such as Edward Jenner, Richard Doll, and Jonas E. Salk.
Examines the results of a collaboration in 1998 between the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in which students were engaged in a program to learn about public health issues affecting their communities, as well as careers in the field, and offers advice for developing similar programs.
Provides clear, careful explanations about influenza and also offers readers and researchers insight into what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and the lastest about treatment and prevention.
