Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vallverdú, Jordi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Puyol, Angel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Estany, Anna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Statistics .; Epidemiology.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Health promotion.; Bioethics.; Biostatistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
• Physical Description: XI, 214 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030286262
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28626-2

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics. The contributions were originally presented at the 1st Barcelona conference of "Philosophy of Public Health" (5th - 7th May 2016). This book is intended for researchers interested in public health and the contemporary debates surrounding it. .