Understanding Health
- ISBN-10
- 0195574907
- ISBN-13
- 9780195574906
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-12-15
- Publisher
- OUP Australia & New Zealand
- Authors
- Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall
Description
Understanding Health 3e provides students with an introduction to health promotion, the determinants of health, and the other frameworks of health.
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Other editions
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- 2003-02-28
- 152 pages
- Paperback
- SAGE Publications Limited
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