Public health in India: Issues and Challenges
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Public health in India: issues and challenges.
Health is determined not only by medical care but also by determinants outside the medical sector. Public health approach is to deal with all these determinants of health which requires multi sectoral collaboration and inter-disciplinary coordination. Although there have been major improvements in public health since 1950s, India is passing through demographic and environmental transition which...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0019-557X
DOI: 10.4103/0019-557x.85237