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Community Medicine: A Textbook for Nurses and Health Visitors book cover

1st Edition

Community Medicine A Textbook for Nurses and Health Visitors

By W. E. Waters, K. S. Cliff Copyright 1983
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1983 this book gives a basic grounding in community medicine and epidemiology for district, community psychiatric and other nurses and health visitors. It provides the background necessary to an understanding of how diseases occur and spread in populations, and to an appreciation of the possible planning and prevention that such health professionals can undertake. Although... Read more

1.Introduction to the History and Development of Community Medicine 2. The Changing Pattern of Disease in the Community From 1800 3. Introduction to the Language of Epidemiology 4. Types of Studies Used in Epidemiological Investigations 5. Drawing a Sample For a Study 6. Simple Statistics Used in Community Medicine 7. The Epidemiology of Some Common Diseases: Ischaemic Heart Disease, Renal Disease, Home Accidents, Psychiatric Illness 8. Screening for Disease in a Community 9. Prevention of Disease in a Community 10. Planning for Health Care for a Community 11. Evaluation.

Biography

W. E. Waters was Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Southampton. K.S. Cliff was Senior Lecturer in Community Medicine at the University of Southampton. 

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