Public Health: The Development of a Discipline

from the Age of Hippocrates to the Progressive Era

Public health as a discipline grew out of traditional Western medicine but expanded to include interests in social policy, hygiene, epidemiology, infectious disease, sanitation, and health education.

• Format
• 848 pages, Paperback
• First published
• February 28, 2008
• Publishers
• Rutgers University Press
• Subjects
• History of medicine·Public health·Preventive medicine·Medical·Medical·Nursing·Health Care Delivery·Collected Works·History·Public Health
• Language
• English