You . . . Your Health . . . Your Community
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You . . . Your Health . . . Your Community

A Guide to Personal and Communal Health Problems Throughout the World, for VIth Form Students and Teachers

1st Edition - January 1, 1970

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  • Author: Sonya Leff
  • eBook ISBN: 9781483182971

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You . . . Your Health . . . Your Community discusses some of the influences affecting mans’ physical, mental and social well-being, either at home, school, or work. The topics covered in this text include the food and health around the world, social setting, our health at work, white plague and the English disease, and suicide and accidental death. Venereal diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea are also described. This publication is beneficial to medical practitioners and students researching on some of the many factors that aggravate disease and disorder within a community and some features which, if developed, could enhance peoples’ health.

Table of Contents

  • List of Tables

    List of Figures

    Acknowledgements

    Chapter 1: What is Health?

    Publisher Summary

    Chapter 2: The Social Setting

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    Chapter 3: Housing and Health

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    Chapter 4: Food and Health Around the World

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    Chapter 5: Our Health at Work

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    Chapter 6: What is Cancer?

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    Chapter 7: The White Plague and the English Disease

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    Chapter 8: More Top Killers—Suicide and Accidental Death

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    Chapter 9: Drugs—Their Value, Our Failure

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    Chapter 10: What About V.D.?

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    Chapter 11: Controlling the Population Explosion

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    Chapter 12: Personal Relationships and Family Health

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    Chapter 13: Mental Health Matters

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    Chapter 14: Health in Later Years

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    Chapter 15: Working for Community Health

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Product details

  • No. of pages: 136
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2013
  • Published: January 1, 1970
  • Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
  • eBook ISBN: 9781483182971

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Sonya Leff

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