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According to Wikipedia, John Murray Last was a preeminent Canadian public health scholar, prolific author, scientist and teacher whose reference texts are used by schools of public health as well as community medicine and epidemiology practitioners throughout the world. He was also an outspoken advocate for change, especially on the need for a stronger and more effective voice for public health, and the need for political action on climate change.

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John M. Last's Published Works

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Our common future. (1987) (8508)
Making the Dictionary of Epidemiology. (1996) (377)
Biomass fuel combustion and health. (1985) (235)
The effects of changing weather on public health. (2000) (208)
Dictionary of public health. (2002) (164)
Health and climate change (1994) (79)
The iceberg: 'completing the clinical picture' in general practice. 1963. (2013) (76)
Relative importance of risk factors in bladder carcinogenesis. (1978) (61)
Personal factors as a cause of differences in prescribing by general practitioners. (1968) (50)
Global change: ozone depletion, greenhouse warming, and public health. (1993) (35)
Career Preference of Young British Doctors (1968) (33)
Suicide in Canada: birth-cohort analysis. (1985) (24)
Careers of Young Medical Women (1968) (21)
Academic Record and Subsequent Career (1967) (20)
The Content of Medical Care in Primary Practice (1969) (19)
Young Doctors Aiming to Enter Different Specialties (1969) (18)
MEDICAL MANPOWER IN AUSTRALIA. (1964) (17)
Epidemiology and ethics (1990) (14)
Findings from the American College of Epidemiology's survey on Ethics guidelines. The American College of Epidemiology Ethics and Standards of Practice Committee. (1998) (13)
A comparison of the school performance, emotional adjustment and skill development of poor and middle-class children. (1985) (13)
Are hair dyes associated with bladder cancer? (1978) (13)
Health and climate change. (1994) (12)
Sexual Offences against Children: Report of the Committee on Sexual Offences against Children and Youths, Appointed by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and the Minister of National Health and Welfare (1985) (10)
Scientists Appeal to Quebec Premier Charest to Stop Exporting Asbestos to the Developing World (2010) (9)
Motor vehicle traffic accident mortality in Canada, 1921-1984. (1988) (8)
Redefining the unacceptable (1995) (8)
Obligations and responsibilities of epidemiologists to research subjects. (1991) (7)
The future of health in Canada. (1988) (7)
Guidelines on ethics for epidemiologists (2005) (6)
Further Careers of Young British Doctors (1970) (6)
Guidelines on ethics for epidemiologists. (1991) (6)
How many doctors do we need? (1968) (5)
What is “Clinical Epidemiology?” (2009) (5)
New pathways in an age of ecological and ethical concerns. (1994) (5)
Implications for human health of global ecological changes. (1990) (5)
THE HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS: SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM GENERAL PRACTICE (1960) (5)
Regional distribution of general practitioners and consultants in the National Health Service. (1967) (5)
Commentary: the iceberg revisited. (2013) (4)
Promoting better health among the elderly. (1982) (4)
Migrating Doctors (1969) (4)
The World Need for Schools of Public Health (1982) (3)
Future Challenges to Health and Public Health Services in Canada (2010) (3)
Human rights, doctors' rights, and patients' rights/Droits humains, droits des medicins et des malades. (1995) (3)
PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE. RECORD KEEPING. (1965) (3)
The two highest priorities in public health. (1986) (2)
Ethics, health policy and AIDS. (1989) (2)
Management of primary bladder cancer by a multidisciplinary team. (1979) (2)
The National Health Grant Health Care Evaluation Seminars. (1973) (2)
Evaluation of medical care. (1965) (2)
Future Challenges to Health and Public Health Services in Canada (2010) (2)
War and the health of children. (1991) (2)
THE ORGANIZATION AND ECONOMICS OF MEDICAL CARE IN AUSTRALIA. (1965) (2)
Making the most of research. (1989) (2)
A vision of health in the 21st century: medical response to the greenhouse effect. (1989) (2)
Distress symptoms may be easy to miss (2000) (2)
GREENHOUSE EFFECT (1989) (1)
The World Need for Schools of Public Health (1982) (1)
Ethics, mores and values--and AIDS. (1987) (1)
Draft guidelines on ethics for epidemiologists. (1991) (1)
Dental utilization and dental health status of children from a rent-to-income housing complex. (1981) (1)
A Brief History of Advances Toward Health (2005) (1)
Epidemiology: the basic, clinical, essential science. (1996) (1)
Dictionary of Epidemiology (1993) (1)
Prospective or retrospective: what's in a name? (1991) (1)
Public health and the global environment. (1990) (1)
CULTURE, SOCIETY AND THE MIGRANT (1961) (1)
SURVIVAL OF SMALLPOX VIRUS (1985) (1)
Community Demand for Doctors in the next 10 Years* (1969) (1)
War and the demographic trap (1993) (1)
QUALITY OF GENERAL PRACTICE (1967) (1)
Comment on: Ogden T (2009) 'data sharing, federal rule of evidence 702, and the lions in the undergrowth'. (2010) (1)
Connecting the dots: the power of words and the diversity of epidemiological information (2010) (1)
Needed: tenable values or five to ten more earth-sized planets. Interview by Desmond Avery. (2001) (0)
CMA epidemiology guidelines. (1993) (0)
Within Reach of Everyone: A History of the University of Toronto School of Hygiene and the Connaught Laboratories, Volume 1, 1927 to 1955 (1991) (0)
Emigration of Doctors (1964) (0)
General practice in Australia. (1966) (0)
DISCLOSURE OF JOURNAL REFEREES' REPORTS (1986) (0)
The ethics of paternalism in public health. (1987) (0)
The demographic trap and sustainable health. (1991) (0)
In memoriam (2007) (0)
Medical school intake and manpower implications (1980) (0)
The teaching of social and community medicine. Measuring the results. (1970) (0)
[FOOD CONTROL IN SWITZERLAND IN 1962. I]. (1963) (0)
THE FUNCTION OF A DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE* (1974) (0)
Where are the teachers of community medicine? (1969) (0)
Controlling the Smoking Epidemic (1979) (0)
The cultural context of ethical problems. (1997) (0)
Personal View (1979) (0)
The People's Library of Epidemiology. (2012) (0)
Contemplating a one child world. Medical profession should give more decisive leadership. (1996) (0)
Health hazards of the indoor environment. (1984) (0)
The future need for schools of public health in Canada. (1988) (0)
Migration of British Doctors to Australia (1963) (0)
Medical profession should give more decisive leadership (1996) (0)
University medical staff. (1967) (0)
Informed consent/consentement éclairé (1992) (0)
Journal Review of the MJM (2020) (0)
[The nature and quality of epidemiological evidences]. (1982) (0)
Lessons learned and public health's political role: an interview with John Last. (2014) (0)
From around the world. Of greenhouses and granaries. (1989) (0)
The nature and quality of epidemiologic evidence. (1983) (0)
Public health in the 80s and 90s. (1989) (0)
New IUHPE Research Report series gives graduate students a new avenue to disseminate their research globally (2007) (0)
Individual and community responsibility for population policy. (1985) (0)
A conversation with John Last. Interview by Julian Little. (2010) (0)
The future of higher education for public health--2. (1988) (0)
Reactions to contagion. (1991) (0)
Medical care in Australia. (1966) (0)
IRB review: necessary, nice or needless? (1999) (0)
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TERMS (1980) (0)
[Future of health and health services]. (1985) (0)
Some ethical issues in public health. (1986) (0)
SOME ASPECTS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE ABROAD (1960) (0)
Order of Canada for Longtime CPHA Member and Former CJPH Scientific Editor, John M. Last (2012) (0)
More on digraphs (1987) (0)
Ethics of preventive medicine from around the world. (1990) (0)
Re: "Epidemiology: questions of science, ethics, morality, and law". (1989) (0)
Public health training opportunities in Canada. (1990) (0)
Inappropriate terminology. (1984) (0)
Medical records, 2: security and confidentiality. (1994) (0)
Towards a dictionary of epidemiological terms. (1982) (0)
Professional integrity. (1993) (0)
Personal View (1985) (0)
Smoking or health. (1981) (0)
Personal View (1984) (0)
THE MEASUREMENT OF MEDICAL CARE IN GENERAL PRACTICE (1965) (0)
Measuring the Results (1970) (0)
Health-service research--does it make a difference? (1977) (0)
Sexual abuse of patients/Abus sexuel de patients. (1992) (0)
TILL RETIREMENT DOES THEM PART? (1981) (0)
Monitoring, surveillance and research needs. Public health planning priorities and policy options. (1999) (0)
Letter: The nurse in the community. (1974) (0)
Personal View (1980) (0)

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