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Donaldsons' Essential Public Health is the Third Edition of the widely acclaimed and best-selling Essential Public Health. It is the standard text in a great number of institutions and is widely read by students and practitioners across a range of disciplines. This greatly expanded and updated text brings together, in one volume, the principles and applications of epidemiology, the main health problems experienced by populations and by the main groups within them, the strategies for intervention to promote health and prevent disease, the main themes underlying health policy formulation and a description of the provision of health services. The book is essential reading for all students of public health, as well as students of medicine, nursing, health visiting, policy and social science. Those involved in courses of postgraduate study, particularly those in public health, will find it of great value. It is a source of knowledge and information for those from a variety of different disc

ISBN 9781846192098Edition 03Binding Paper