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Social and community medicine for students
1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 186 pages) : illustrations, map
Social and Community Medicine for Students presents an extensive examination of the application of medical sociology to community treatment. It discusses the principles behind the scope and methods of epidemiology. It addresses studies in attitudes and illness.
Front Cover; Social and Community Medicine for Students; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter I. Introduction. Some common features of social medicine, past and present; Chapter II. Medical Sociology I. The sick role in Western Societies; Chapter III. Medical Sociology II. Sickness behaviour in a traditional society; Chapter IV. Statistics vital to social medicine; Chapter V. The scope and methods of epidemiology; Chapter VI. Descriptive epidemiology: the geographical pathology of cancer; Chapter VII. The epidemiology of ischaemic heart disease.
Chapter VIII. The epidemiology of mental illness: problems of definition and methodChapter IX. Attitudes and illness; Chapter X. The possibilities and limitations of health education; Chapter XI. Children at risk; Chapter XII. Health in industry and disability outside it; Chapter XIII. Social provisions for health and welfare.; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index.