Health in the Americas, 2002 Edition
- ISBN-10
- 9275115877
- ISBN-13
- 9789275115879
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 1042
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Pan American Health Org
- Author
- Pan American Health Organization
Description
Volume I describes the health situation from a regional perspective and contains a series of chapters that identify and analyze the most important general, demographic, and mortality trends of the period; major determinants of health as seen from a variety of political, social, economic, and financial standpoints; principal trends and characteristics of the ongoing health sector reform movement; the role of individuals and communities in promoting health; the association between the physical environment and human living conditions; principal diseases and health problems; the extent of human an.
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