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Comprehensive: Includes over 2,500 entries – review-style articles, in-depth essays and short definitions
Accessible and user-friendly: A to Z format provides easy access to the content of this relevant and extensive reference tool
Clear language makes the contents accessible
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Table of contents (3826 entries)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The Encyclopedia of Public Health presents the most important definitions, principles and general perspectives of public health, written by experts of the different fields. The work includes more than 2,500 entries in alphabetical order. Entries comprise review-style articles (synopses), detailed essays and short definitions. Extensive cross referencing and hyperlinking offers an easy to use web of knowledge in Public Health.
Solidly structured and inclusive, this two-volume reference is an invaluable tool for clinical scientists and practitioners in academia, health care and industry, as well as students and teachers.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The text was developed by 23 editors representing subfields of public health, along with 150 contributors … . Academic libraries with extensive public health collections will benefit from owning this well-written set. … Summing Up: … Lower-level undergraduates and above." (U. Ellis, Choice, Vol. 46 (4), December, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
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Network EUROlifestyle Research Association Public Health Saxony-Saxony Anhalt e.V. Medical Faculty, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Wilhelm Kirch
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Public Health
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: A - H Volume 2: I - Z
Editors: Wilhelm Kirch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5614-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5613-0Published: 13 June 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5614-7Published: 09 June 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LII, 1601