Ebook: Public Health: A Very Short Introduction

What is public health? -- Current challenges -- The origins of public health into the 1700s -- Sanitation to education 1800-1900s -- The rise of lifestyle 1900-1980s -- Tropical and international public health -- Present and future in the light of history.;This 'Very Short Introduction' outlines the nature of public health in our world today and places public health in its historical context from the earliest times, analysing in particular the changes in public health regulation through the nineteenth century and the twentieth and twenty first centuries.