RT Book, Section
A1 Wallace, Robert B.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141963111
T1 Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Trends and Guideposts
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141963111
RD 2024/04/24
AB There  are  varied  definitions  of  public  health.  Recent  volumes  from  the  U.S.  Institute  of  Medicine  have  addressed  the  definitions  and  functions  of  public  health1,2  in  a  careful  and  thoughtful  way,  and  described  several  pathways  to  healthier  communities.  The  field  of  preventive  medicine,  the  interface  between  public  health  and  medical  practice,  is  also  critical  to  the  health  of  populations,  but  is  in  a  faster  transition  as  the  roles  traditionally  performed  by  physicians  in  population  medicine  are  reconsidered  and  the  structure  of  public  health  evolves.  In  the  meantime,  the  health  needs  of  the  public  are  as  acute  as  ever  and  demand  all  of  the  energy,  skill,  and  science  that  public  health  and  preventive  medicine  can  muster.