International Handbook of Public Health

KLAUS HURRELMANN is Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, Director of the Research Center for Prevention and Intervention, and Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Bielefeld. He has won several Senior Science awards from the German Research Association, and his numerous publications include the International Handbook of Adolescence (Greenwood, 1994).ULRICH LAASER is Professor of Social Medicine and Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of Bielefeld. He is also Director of the Institute of Population Research and Social Policy in Bielefeld. From 1993 to 1995 he was President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region.

• Public Health--Theory, Training, and Research Theory and Training in Public Health by Klaus Hurrelmann, Ulrich Laaser, and Jacques Bury Organizational Status of Basic and Applied Research in Public Health by Roger Detels, Walter W. Holland, and Heizo Tanaka Country Reports Australia by G. Dennis Calvert Brazil by Jose Carvalho de Noronha and Eduardo Levcovitz Canada by Robert A. Spasoff China by Keyou Ge and Xudong Yang France by D. Philippe Duprat Germany by Jurgen von Troschke, Axel Hoffmann-Markwald, and Ulrich Stossel Israel by Eitan F. Sabatello, David Chinitz, Palti Hava, and Leon Epstein Italy by Franco Cavallo and Giovanni Renga Japan by Atsuaki Gunji Korea by Yong-Wook Lee and Jong-Gyu Kim Malaysia by Siti Norazah Zulkifli, Wah-Yun Low, and Khairuddin Yusof Mexico by Grac=iela Freyermuth Enc=iso and Jaime Page Pliego Philippines by Teodora V. Tiglao and Jane C. Baltazar Poland by Witold Zato'nski and Monika Przetakiewicz-Koziej Russia by Valery E. Tchernjavsky South Africa by Carel B. Ijsselmuiden Tanzania by Cyril Pervilhac, Martin Alilio, and Peter Kilima Thailand by Somjit Supannatas United Kingdom by Christopher Birt United States by Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Lester Breslow, and E. Richard Brown Addresses of Public Health Organizations Selected Bibliography Index