- Paperback: 132 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (5 Oct 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521313066
- ISBN-13: 978-0521313063
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
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This series in intended for those students following advanced level social biology and related syllabuses. Each text deals with a specific topic area and the series as a whole provides a stimulating introduction to a subject of growing importance. The control of disease and the active encouragement of good health is a major priority of nations worldwide. This book gives a detailed study of a number of diseases and health problems from which common themes and underlying principles emerge. Details of transmission, treatment and control are covered as well as epidemiology and sociooeconomic factors - particularly the implications of AIDS. Topics range from infectious diseases, pulmonary disease and malaria to immunology, transplantation and physical fitness.
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The World Health Organization has defined health as 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity'. Read the first page
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