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Title Disease prevention as social change : the state, society, and public health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada / Constance A. Nathanson.

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New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	362.1 N195d 2007	---	Available

Description	xiv, 328 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The nineteenth century : from miasmas to microbes -- Infant mortality -- Tuberculosis -- Smoking -- HIV/AIDS in injection drug users -- Engines of policy change : the state and civil society -- Experts and zealots -- Political cultures and constructions of risk -- Conclusion.
Subject	Health promotion -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Medicine, Preventive -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Preventive health services -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Medical policy -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Health Policy -- trends -- Canada.
	Health Policy -- trends -- France.
	Health Policy -- trends -- Great Britain.
	Health Policy -- trends -- United States.
	Primary Prevention -- trends -- Canada.
	Primary Prevention -- trends -- France.
	Primary Prevention -- trends -- Great Britain.
	Primary Prevention -- trends -- United States.
	Public Health -- trends -- Canada.
	Public Health -- trends -- France.
	Public Health -- trends -- Great Britain.
	Public Health -- trends -- United States.
	Social Change -- Canada.
	Social Change -- France.
	Social Change -- Great Britain.
	Social Change -- United States.
ISBN	9780871546449 (alk. paper)
	0871546442 (alk. paper)
Standard No.	NLM 101289429
	YDXCP 2522041
	NLGGC 299373711
	AU@ 000040983875
	NZ1 11065505
	NLC 20080129579