Christopher Dye

Investing in Health and Wellbeing (eBook, ePUB)

When Prevention is Better than Cure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Investing in Health and Wellbeing: When Prevention is Better than Cure, Second Edition provides a framework to investigate health promotion and protection, illustrating the principles with practical examples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198887157
• Artikelnr.: 72258260

Autorenporträt

Christopher Dye is currently Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford University where he is working to make a stronger case for investing in health. He is a Fellow of The UK Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Biology. Chris began professional life as a biologist and ecologist (BA York 1978) but postgraduate research on mosquitoes (DPhil Oxford 1982) led to a career in epidemiology and public health. Based at Imperial College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1982-96, he carried out research on bloodsucking insects in Africa, Asia and South America. In 1996, he joined the World Health Organization where he developed ways of analyzing the vast quantities of data, collected by government health departments worldwide. As WHO Director of Strategy 2014-18, he served as science advisor to the Director General. From 2006-09, he was also Gresham Professor of Physic (and other biological sciences).