Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada

List of Tables and Figures xv Foreword xviii Preface xix List of Contributors xxi Part I: Health and Disease 1(68) CHAPTER 1 Concepts, Determinants, and Promotion of Health 3(36) Concepts of Health and Disease 3(6) Contemporary Definitions of Health 3(1) Concepts of Disease and Its Consequences 4(4) Theories of Disease Causation