Title Public health : the development of a discipline / edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. Volume 2, Twentieth-century challenges

Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (824 pages) Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Population Health Issues -- 1. Food and Nutrition -- Paths to the Discovery of Vitamins A and D (1967) -- Impact of Vitamin A Supplementation on Childhood Mortality (1986) -- Nutrition Transition in Low-Income Countries: An Emerging Crisis (1994, Abridged) -- 2. Tobacco -- Carcinogenic Effects of Tobacco (1940) -- Smoking and Lung Cancer: Recent Evidence and a Discussion of Some Questions (1959, Abridged) -- Non-smoking Wives of Heavy Smokers Have a Higher Risk of Lung Cancer: A Study from Japan (1984) -- 3. Dental Health -- Investigation of Mottled Teeth (1916, Abridged) -- Conclusion of a Ten-Year Study of Water Fluoridation (1956, Abridged) -- Diet and Oral Health (2000, Abridged) -- 4. Environmental Health -- Mortality in the London Fog Incident, 1952 (1953) -- Removal of Lead from Gasoline: Historical and Personal Reflections (2000) -- Global Climate Change and Infectious Diseases (1991) -- 5. Occupational Health -- Mortality from Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers (1955) -- Diffuse Pleural Mesothelioma and Asbestos Exposure in the North Western Cape Province (1960, Abridged) -- Lung Cancer in Chloromethyl Methyl Ether Workers (1973) -- 6. Women's Health -- Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear (1943, Abridged) -- Introduction of the Pill and Its Impact (1999) -- Global Overview of Gender-based Violence (2002) -- 7. Maternal Child Health -- Prevention of Infant Mortality by Breast Feeding (1912) -- More Folic Acid for Everyone, Now (1996) -- Traditional Practice that Threatens Health -- Female Circumcision (1986) -- pt. II Diseases, Therapies, and Prevention -- 8. Tuberculosis -- Streptomycin: A Valuable Anti-Tuberculosis Agent (1948) -- International Tuberculosis Campaign: A Pioneering Venture in Mass Vaccination and Research (1994) -- Notes Print version record Subject Public health -- Health HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. MEDICAL -- Public Health. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues. MEDICAL -- History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813551005 0813551005

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