Essential Community Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Health data and their sources

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 1-60

3. Patterns of disease

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 61-112

4. Origin of diseases and their prevention

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 113-164

5. The National Health Service and social services

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 165-236

6. Physically handicapped persons

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 237-270

7. Mothers and children

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 271-351

8. Mentally disordered people

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 353-422

9. Elderly people

   • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

   Pages 423-465

10. Communicable diseases and parasites

    • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

    Pages 467-535

11. Environmental health

    • R. J. Donaldson, L. J. Donaldson

    Pages 537-580

12. Back Matter

    Pages 581-595

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This basic textbook of Community Medicine, which includes descriptions of the related social ~ervices, is intended for a wide range of readers who require knowledge and understanding of the essential aspects of the subject. These include undergraduate medical students and qualified doctors who are engaged in postgraduate courses of study or training schemes, particularly those in community medicine and general practice. When writing this book we also had in mi nd the needs of students of nursing at all levels at a time when an increasing emphasis on the community is being reflected in the content of curricula and the composition of examination papers. It is our view that this account of community medicine will also be of value to established practitioners -community physicians, community health doctors, senior nurses and health visitors - who wish to con­ solidate or update their knowledge. The growing involvement of the professions in the management and planning of health services means that many general practitioners, hospital doctors and nurses are being called upon to take a population perspective and to become acquainted with many of the concepts and issues discussed in this book. In addition, there are those professionals who work closely with medicine and nursing and have a common concern in providing care and promoting prevention -groups such as social workers and health education personnel. For all these reasons we would ho pe that many groups might read the book and find it useful.

• care
• diseases
• education
• health
• health services
• hospital
• management
• medicine
• nursing
• parasite
• parasites
• planning
• population
• prevention
• social work

• Royal Free and St. Mary’s Hospital Schools of Medicine, Hampstead Health Authority, UK

  R. J. Donaldson

• Northern Regional Health Authority, UK

  L. J. Donaldson

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