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Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology 3/2024

20.03.2024 | BOOK REVIEW

The public-health mindset

Review of “The public health approach - population thinking from the black death to COVID-19” by Alfredo Morabia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023

verfasst von: Kenneth J. Rothman

Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Ausgabe 3/2024

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Excerpt

Great thinkers and writers have pondered about health and disease for millennia. During most of that stretch the focus has been on what has happened to individual people, and how to treat them. In his latest book, Alfredo Morabia advances his thesis that we owe most of our modern insight about the burden of disease and how to control it to a shift in viewpoint from person to population. …
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Metadaten
Titel
The public-health mindset
Review of “The public health approach - population thinking from the black death to COVID-19” by Alfredo Morabia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
verfasst von
Kenneth J. Rothman
Publikationsdatum
20.03.2024
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
European Journal of Epidemiology / Ausgabe 3/2024
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-024-01108-6

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