Social and Community Medicine for Students
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Social and Community Medicine for Students

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Social and Community Medicine for Students

About this book

Social and Community Medicine for Students presents an extensive examination of the application of medical sociology to community treatment. It discusses the principles behind the scope and methods of epidemiology. It addresses studies in attitudes and illness. Some of the topics covered in the book are the sick role in Western Societies; sickness behavior in a traditional society; statistics vital to social medicine; geographical pathology of cancer; scope and methods of epidemiology; possibilities and limitations of health education; and health in industry and external disability. The definition and description of social provisions for health and welfare are fully covered. An in-depth account of the common features and development of social medicine are provided. The epidemiology of the cancer of the esophagus is completely presented. A chapter is devoted to description and diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease. Another section focuses on the practical applications of social medicine. The book can provide useful information to doctors, students, and researchers.

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780433201205
eBook ISBN
9781483182995
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Epidemiology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Social and Community Medicine for Students
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter I. Introduction. Some common features of social medicine, past and present
  7. Chapter II. Medical Sociology I. The sick role in Western Societies
  8. Chapter III. Medical Sociology II. Sickness behaviour in a traditional society
  9. Chapter IV. Statistics vital to social medicine
  10. Chapter V. The scope and methods of epidemiology
  11. Chapter VI. Descriptive epidemiology: the geographical pathology of cancer
  12. Chapter VII. The epidemiology of ischaemic heart disease
  13. Chapter VIII. The epidemiology of mental illness: problems of definition and method
  14. Chapter IX. Attitudes and illness
  15. Chapter X. The possibilities and limitations of health education
  16. Chapter XI. Children at risk
  17. Chapter XII. Health in industry and disability outside it
  18. Chapter XIII. Social provisions for health and welfare.
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index