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Additional Reading
Overviews of public health are Mary-Jane Schneider, Introduction to Public Health, 5th ed. (2017); and Bernard J. Turnock, Public Health: What It Is and How It Works, 6th ed. (2016).
Historical developments in the field are discussed in George Rosen, A History of Public Health (1958; rev. 2015); and Dorothy Porter, Health, Civilization, and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1999).
In-depth information is presented in Theodore H. Tulchinsky and Elena A. Varavikova with Joan D. Bickford, The New Public Health, 3rd ed. (2014). Robert B. Wallace (ed.), Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 15th ed. (2008), is a definitive text. Later surveys of the organized effort to protect and improve community health include Derek Fraser, The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy Since the Industrial Revolution, 4th ed. (2009).
Specific areas of public health, including disaster planning, international aspects, and diseases, are discussed in Bruce W. Clements and Julie Ann P. Casani, Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response, 2nd ed. (2016); Michael H. Merson, Robert E. Black, and Anne J. Mills (eds.), International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, 3rd ed. (2012); and Constance Urciolo Battle (ed.), Essentials of Public Health Biology: A Guide for the Study of Pathophysiology (2009).
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - A History of the Public Health System. | Sep 12, 2026 | ||
| Replaced media. | Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - What is Public Health? | Apr 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Public Health. | Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Added information on COVID-19. | Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Introduction to Public Health. | Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - What is Public Health? | Mar 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Communications Guide - What is public health? | Feb 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - A History of the Public Health System. | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Added information on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | Mar 20, 2020 | ||
| Added a photo of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency Operations Center. | Mar 20, 2020 | ||
| Added information on the increasing prevalence of dementia in elderly populations. | Dec 20, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - Public Health During the Industrial Revolution. | Jul 26, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Health Organization - Public health services. | May 31, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 25, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Public Health Association - What is Public Health? | Jan 17, 2018 | ||
| Changed 1852 to 1752 in reference to the publication date of Sir John Pringle's book on ventilation in barracks and the provision of latrines. | Nov 14, 2017 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | May 18, 2017 | ||
| Added information on research on Ebola and mosquito-borne diseases in less-developed countries. | Jan 04, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 04, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised. | Nov 14, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Public Health. | Jan 23, 2014 | ||
| Updated information on infant and under-five child mortality. Revised information on health care in developed and less-developed countries. | Jul 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: MedicineNet - Definition of Public health. | Aug 07, 2012 | ||
| Changed "The Netherlands" to "the Netherlands." | Sep 15, 2010 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 25, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |