Health of mankind : Ciba Foundation 100th Symposium / / edited by Gordon Wolstenholme and Maeve O'Connor

• Pubblicazione: London, : Churchill, 1967
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 614
• Soggetto topico: Public health; Environmental health; Medical personnel
• Altri autori: WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward) O'ConnorMaeve
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Health of Mankind; Contents; Introduction; World incidence and prevalence of the major communicable diseases; Discussion; Care of mother and child; Discussion; Animal health and its implications for man; Discussion; Geographical pathology of the major killing dis-orders: cancer and cardiovascular diseases; Discussion; Mental and behavioural disorders; Discussion; Occupational health and its assessment; Discussion; Population growth and age composition; Discussion; Faulty nutrition: failures in food supply, variety and distribution; Discussion; Pollution of water, air and food; Discussion ; The inhuman cityDiscussion; Political, national and traditional limitations to health control; Discussion; Size and distribution of present world resources of doctors, specialists, nurses, midwives, medical technicians, sanitarians and other health staff; Discussion; Education and training facilities, present and potential; and research; Discussion; Outlines of a world health service, as a step towards man's well-being and towards a world society; Discussion; Group Discussion; Concluding remarks; Members of the symposium; Index of contributors; Index of authors cited; Index of subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Health of mankind
• ISBN: 9786613621832; 9781280592003; 1280592001; 9780470717196; 047071719X; 9780470719596; 0470719591
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911019106203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Novartis Foundation Symposia