Shifting Paradigms in Public Health From Holism to Individualism /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Public health.; Health.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Biomedicine general.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, populat...