Community Medicine: A Textbook for Nurses and Health Visitors

Originally published in 1983 this book gives a grounding in community medicine and epidemiology for district, community psychiatric and other nurses and health visitors. It provides the background necessary to an understanding of how diseases occur and spread in populations, and to an appreciation of the possible planning and prevention.

W. E. Waters was Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Southampton. K.S. Cliff was Senior Lecturer in Community Medicine at the University of Southampton.