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In this book, a pragmatic deal with disease prevention and health promotion is proposed by different authors through safe environment and healthy lifestyle, physical activity and weight control, herbal medicine and mathematical modelling for communicable and non communicable diseases. Authors showed that reducing health inequalities and ensuring wellbeing for the whole population needs efficient action on social determinants of health such as income, education, gender, marital status, employment, ethnicity, milieu of residence, territorial context and general environment conditions.
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Boutayeb, A. (2020). Introduction. In: Boutayeb, A. (eds) Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Developing Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34702-4_1
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