… First, the scope of public health is covered, looking at the … of health and disease, public
health policies, and law and ethics. The textbook then focuses on the methods of public health, …

… does not attempt to be a comprehensive reference manual on all aspects of public health;
it provides illustrative models of the public health approach to identifying and solving health …

… oral health within communities. Although Public Health Dentistry is concerned with oral health
… of an individual patient, the ultimate beneficiary of public health programs is an individual. …

… changing scope of public health described in this volume will require public health policy-…
partnerships and international coalitions that encompass the public, not-for-profit and private …

… of this textbook. A textbook covering a wide spectrum of topics in Public Health Dentistry is
… several disciplines of General Public Health, Dental Public Health and Preventive dentistry, …

[en] This book contains 31 chapters. Some of the chapter titles are: Cross-sectional studies;
Viral diseases of public health importance; Arboviruses; The principles of an epidemic field …

… Have we achieved a public health approach to palliative care? 15 … a newer and less
recognized aspect of public health—public health practice methods such as education, health …

… on classical public health approaches, such as health promotion and disease prevention.
The following section describes how nature has been incorporated in healthcare for treatment …

… Whereas public health in its own right as a medical speciality has a long history, in many
parts of the world public mental health has come into its own as a speciality of psychiatry and …

All organs and systems of the body can be affected adversely by exposures to environmental
hazards. Adverse effects range from subtle physiological and biochemical changes that …