History of health, a valuable tool in public health

The aim of this article is to highlight the importance of the history of public health for public health research and practice itself. After summarily reviewing the current great vitality of the history of collective health oriented initiatives, we explain three particular features of the historical vantage point in public health, namely the importance of the context, the relevance of a diachronic attitude and the critical perspective. In order to illustrate those three topics, we bring up examples taken from three centuries of fight against malaria, the so called “re-emerging diseases” and the 1918 influenza epidemic. The historical approach enriches our critical perception of the social effects of initiatives undertaken in the name of public health, shows the shortcomings of public health interventions based on single factors and asks for a wider time scope in the assessment of current problems. The use of a historical perspective to examine the plurality of determinants in any particular health condition will help to solve the longlasting debate on the primacy of individual versus population factors, which has been particularly intense in recent times.

History and general catalogue of LaGrange Collegiate Institute : situated at Ontario, LaGrange Co., Ind.

Mode of access: Internet.

Aspects of teacher supply and demand in public school districts and private schools, 1987-88 /

"Data series: DR-SAS-87/88.

Pamphlets about Australia.

Vol. 1 consists of reprints of various journal articles from 1900-1907; vol. 2 of pamphlets mostly aimed at potential emigrants.

South America as I saw it; the observations of a naturalist on the living conditions of its common people; its topography and products; its animals and plants;

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The prehistoric arts, manufactures, works, weapons, etc., of the aborigines of Australia.

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A program for meeting the needs of New York city schools : staff study no. 6 of the report of a joint committee representing the New York State Educational Conference Board and the Public Education Association /

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Performance profiles : Illinois schools report to the public /

Report year ends Oct. 31.

A historical description of the first public school in Hartford, Conn. : now under the superintendence of J. Olney ... with a particular account of its methods of instruction and discipline : accompanied by general remarks on common schools /

Publisher's advertisement on back cover.

History and methods of Sunday school work, an address delivered before the Stone Mountain Association, September 6, 1900,

Mode of access: Internet.

South Dakota historical collections /

Vol. 16, pt. 2 never published.

A history of the Bureau of the Public Debt : 1940-1990 with historical highlights from 1789-1939 /

S/N 048-011-00023-3

South Australian industrial reports.

Mode of access: Internet.

Public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States and outlying areas: school year... /

Description based on: 1990-91.

Report on the geology of the country south and east of the Murray River, with special reference to the subterranean water supply in wells and bores along the Pinnaroo and Bordertown railways. With geological plan and explanatory sections.

At head of title: South Australia.