Community health, preventive medicine and social services - Brian Meredith Davies

This compact textbook provides a comprehensive and highly readable guide to community health and social services in the UK, and highlights the central role of preventive medicine in primary health care. Includes coverage of community health and preventive medicine, the National Health Service, medical audit, measurement of health, maternity services, child health services, immunization, preventive medicine in primary health care, the primary health care team and other community health services, epidemiology of communicable diseases, common communicable diseases, control of sexually transmitted diseases, rare communicable diseases, epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases, food and nutrition, public health and social services, care of the mentally disordered person, drug and alcohol abuse, care of the elderly person, hospital social work, social problems, children in need, child physical and sexual abuse, care and rehabilitation of the disabled person, homelessness, and more.