00000cam a22000003a 4500 UP-1685523046126317624 Buklod 20160111160645.0 m o j ta 160111s2013 xx d r |||| u| 9788132216438 (iLib)UPMNL-00014230824 CPH-14951 Purchase Php15,800.00 UP CPH rda eng RA 425 Y34 2013 Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar author. Shifting paradigms in public health from holism to individualism Vijay Kumar Yadavendu. New Delhi Springer India c2013. xvii, 203 pages 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d'tre, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based understanding that emphasized historicity and interrelatedness to study health and disease in their larger socio-economic and political moorings. Medicine Philosophy. Public health. UPMNL CPH RA 425 Y34 2013 Book