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Dawning Answers : How The Hiv/aids Epidemic Has Helped To Strengthen Public Health
Hardback Edition: 1
This text charts the legacy of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic to the theory and practice of public health. Detailed chapters describe how advances in techniques and strategies to monitor health events, develop public policy, set funding priorities, and so forth, all owe a substantial debt
to those who have adapted, redefined, and extended these techniques and strategies in response to HIV/AIDS. The book offers analyses from experts in various fields and disciplines. Although most of the examples reflect the US experience, relevant examples from other countries are cited, and an entire chapter is devoted to the evolving impact of HIV/AIDS on global health and development. Devastating as the losses from AIDS have been, the many public health lessons learned as a result of the epidemic have positively influenced other domains of public health and will continue to exert an influence on approaches to health assessment, policy development, and assurance.
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Pages : 209
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Publication date : 2003-04-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development