Title World health and disease / edited by Alastair Gray

Edition Third edition Published Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2001

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MELB	614.4 Gra/Wha 2001		AVAILABLE

Description 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 27cm Series Health and disease series ; bk. 3 Health and disease series ; bk. 3 Contents Introduction -- World patterns of mortality -- Mortality and morbidity: causes and determinants -- Livelihood and survival: a case study of Bangladesh -- World transformed: population and the rise of industrial society -- Decline of infectious diseases: the case of England -- Health in a world of wealth and poverty -- Population and development prospects -- Contemporary patterns of disease in the United Kingdom -- Explaining inequalities in health in the United Kingdom -- Food, health and disease: a case study Notes "Chapters 1-3 and 5-10 by Alastair Gray, and Chapters 4 and 11 by Philip Payne"--tp verso "This publication forms part of an Open University level 2 course, U205 Health and Disease"--[3] 2nd ed: 1993 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index Subject Epidemiology -- Great Britain. Social medicine -- Great Britain. Medical economics -- Great Britain. World health. Medical geography. Socioeconomic Factors. Epidemiologic Studies. Demography. Social Medicine -- methods. SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 Author Payne, P. R. Open University. LC no. 2004351586 ISBN 033520838X paperback

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