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A history of public health. (2nd ed. JHU Press, 2015), a major scholarly history with focus on Britain, Germany, France and the U.S.; online. Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann. Public health and the state: changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936 (Harvard UP, 1972), a major study of the leading state; online; Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz.
The Encyclopedia of Public Health is a reference set of four volumes covering all aspects of public health for the lay reader. It covers infectious diseases and other topics related to public health, such as causes of injury or chronic diseases. The 900 articles are written by experts in this domain.
The People's health. 1830-1910 (1979). Warren, Michael D. A chronology of state medicine, public health, welfare and related services in Britain 1066–1999 (2000) online; Webster, Charles. The National Health Service : a political history (2002) Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered lives: public health in Victorian Britain (1983) online.
The section is devoted to reasons other than recognized diseases or health conditions for which people contact health services. [ 57 ] [ 84 ] In a statement made in May 2019, the WHO said "Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon.
Non-professionals, such as family members and other informal caregivers of people who have a chronic illness, may also experience compassion fatigue. [6] The term was first coined in 1992 by Carla Joinson to describe the negative impact hospital nurses were experiencing as a result of their repeated, daily exposure to patient emergencies.
The Sociology of Health and Illness. Polity. ISBN 0-7456-2828-1. Conrad, Peter (2008). The Sociology of Health and Illness. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4292-0558-0. Porter, Dorothy (1999). Health, Civilization, and the State A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-12244-3.
Poster for the Hygiene Congress in Hamburg, 1912 "Sex hygiene" is contrasted with "false modesty" in this frontispiece to an early 20th-century book.. In the United States, the social hygiene movement was an attempt by Progressive Era reformers in the late 19th and early 20th century to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use ...
In 1920, Winslow published a widely-cited definition of public health in Science, describing the field as "the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene ...