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LEADER: 02270cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2003001195
003 DLC
005 20140618074829.0
008 030117s2003 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2003001195
020 $a1580461271 (alk. paper)
035 $a(DNLM)101164638
040 $aDNLM/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRA427.3$b.R68 2003
060 10 $aWA 11.1$bR847p 2003
082 00 $a362.1$221
100 1 $aRothstein, William G.
245 10 $aPublic health and the risk factor :$ba history of an uneven medical revolution /$cWilliam G. Rothstein.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bUniversity of Rochester Press,$c2003.
300 $axiii, 466 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aRochester studies in medical history,$x1526-2715
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 427-454) and index.
505 0 $aThe origins of probability and statistics -- Censuses and vital statistics -- Statistical analyses of medical and social data -- Life insurance and the risk factor -- Cultural and environmental influences on urban mortality rates -- The germ theory and health education in diphtheria and tuberculosis control -- Health education and infant mortality in New York City -- The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company health education programs -- Early twentieth-century mortality trends and rheumatic heart disease -- The early years of the coronary heart disease epidemic -- Causes, correlations, and the etiology of disease -- Cigarette smoking and statistical correlations -- Blood pressure and the benefits of treatment -- The Framingham heart study and the risk factor -- Theories of the causes of coronary heart disease -- The diet-heart hypothesis -- Dietary recommendations and guidelines -- The secular decline in the coronary heart disease epidemic.
650 0 $aHealth risk assessment$xHistory.
650 0 $aHealth behavior$xHistory.
650 0 $aMedicine, Preventive$xHistory.
650 0 $aCoronary heart disease$xRisk factors$xHistory.
650 12 $aPublic Health$xhistory.
650 12 $aRisk Factors.
650 22 $aCoronary Disease$xprevention & control.
650 22 $aHistory of Medicine, 20th Cent.
650 22 $aLife Style.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy038/2003001195.html