Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics, 4Ed - Hardcover

Lucas, Adetokunbo; Gilles, Herbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340759887 ISBN 13: 9780340759882

Publisher: CRC Press, 2002

Synopsis

First published in 1973, Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics, Fourth Edition was designed to provide medical students and other trainees with an introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to the situation in developing countries of the tropics.

Rather than attempting to provide a detailed comprehensive account, the book retains the approach from earlier editions that stresses basic principles illustrated by selected examples.

Infectious diseases feature strongly in the textbook and diseases are grouped epidemiologically, based on the mode of transmission and the public health approaches for their control. This fourth edition also highlights the global epidemiology of Type II diabetes and effects from smoking as examples of the growing incidence of chronic disease in developing countries.

Written primarily for the developing world, the book recognizes the wide diversity in the situation in developing countries and stresses basic principles that can be adapted to local situations.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucas is at Harvard School of Health. Gilles is at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0340759887
• ISBN 13: 9780340759882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 434