TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ko Ko,U.
ED  - World Health Organization.
TI  - Public health: myth, mysticism and reality 
SN  - 9290221836
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
KW  - Public health
KW  - history
KW  - trends
KW  - Social medicine
N2  - Reproduces the text of an Ira Vaughan Hiscock Lecture delivered at the University of Hawaii School of Public Health in 1985. The lecture, which is concerned with the evolution of concepts of public health, traces the origins of public health back to conditions created during the Industrial Revolution in 19th century England. Three subsequent eras of public health are then distinguished: the era of sanitary reform, the bacteriological era rooted in America, and a third era of social medicine. A concluding section, which notes the widening dichotomy between public health and curative medicine, makes a strong plea for perceiving medicine as a whole, so as to derive the maximum benefit from technological advances
UR  - http://apps.who.int/iris/
ER  -