4th Edition

Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics, 4Ed

By Adetokunbo Lucas, Herbert Gilles Copyright 2002
434 Pages 94 Color & 80 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

320 Pages
by CRC Press

First published in 1973, Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics, Fourth Edition was designed to provide medical students and other trainees with an introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to the situation in developing countries of the tropics. Rather than attempting to provide a detailed comprehensive account, the book retains the approach from... Read more
Health in the developing world
Information for health
Epidemiology
Infections through the gastro-intestinal tract
Infections through the skin and mucous membranes
Infections through the respiratory tract
Arthropod-borne infections
Nutritional diseases
Non-communicable diseases
Policy, strategies and management of health services
Family health
Environmental health sanitation
Health education
International health collaboration.

Biography

Adetokunbo Lucas, Herbert Gilles