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CBS PUBLICATION Handbook Of Preventive And Social Medicine 17/E Community Health Community Medicine by Yash Pal Bedi and Pragya Sharma
Handbook of Preventive and Social Medicine Seventeenth Edition Community Health Community Medicine Sanitary Inspectors Public Health Workers • Allied Health Services Staff • Medical Laboratory Technical Staff • Physiotherapists • Occupational Therapists • Rehabilitationists • Social Workers • Epidemiologists • Dieticians • Nutritionists • Pharmacists Preventive and social medicine, comprising community health and community medicine, is a vast developing discipline on which there are a large number of textbooks. This popular Handbook clearly has its own individuality and characteristics carrying the stamp of Dr Yash Pal Bedi. Eleven editions of this book were compiled by Dr Yash Pal Bedi himself. Subsequently, three editions were edited, revised and enlarged by Dr SM Marwah, Professor and Head, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi. This (Seventeenth) edition has been extensively rewritten, revised and enlarged by Dr Pragya Sharma. Certain obsolete portions in the previous edition have been deleted and new ones incorporated without losing original characteristics of the Handbook. All the chapters in this edition have been thoroughly updated. The text of the book adequately covers all the requirements of students of courses for sanitary inspectors, public health workers, allied health services staff, medical laboratory technical staff and social workers. Besides, the handbook will serve as a useful text for undergraduate students in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, epidemiology, dietetics, nutrition and pharmacy. In addition, it will fully serve the requirements of doctors in general practice and public health who are today expected to be integrating preventive, promotive and national health services much more than before.