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S'està carregant… A History of Public Healthde George Rosen
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Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he assesses the public health landscape of health education, public health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical geography. Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization, antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the reemergence of old ones, have returned public health efforts to the basics: preventing and controlling chronic and communicable diseases and shoring up public health infrastructures that provide potable water, sewage disposal, sanitary environments, and safe food and drug supplies to populations around the globe. A revised introduction by Elizabeth Fee frames the book within the context of the historiography of public health past, present, and future, and an updated bibliography by Edward T. Morman includes significant books on public health history published between 1958 and 2014. For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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In 2018, this optimism has been somewhat muted by the realities of HIV/AIDS, by the lingering persistence of many infectious diseases, by the advent of antibiotic-resistant organisms, and by populist movements like the anti-vaccinators. The second half of the twentieth century brought a huge dose of reality to the field of public health.
The updated prologues to this book testify to these historical events. Nonetheless, Rosen's work provides a great template and introduction to the field of public health. From its early beginnings in Egypt, Greece, Rome, and other centers of civilization in the ancient world, public health campaigns have bettered the lives of billions.
I found it especially interesting to survey the different attitudes towards public health and nationalized medicine in various countries. For example, Germany has viewed healthcare with a nationalistic lens dating back to the nineteenth century and the advent of German nationalism. The United States, however, has long been suspicious of such an organizational plan and has suffered inefficiencies due to its paranoia. Cuba has excellent healthcare efficiency. The UK, originally split along political lines about nationalized healthcare, has since viewed its National Health Service with a great deal of national pride. Perhaps there is hope for the United States to resolve its internal squabbles after all.
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