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An edition of Public Health and the Risk Factor (2003)

Public health and the risk factor

a history of an uneven medical revolution

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Describes the evolution of a concept that has become central to public health and medical thought: the risk factor. The risk factor concept has been controversial because of its statistical methodology, its multifactorial concept of disease etiology, and its effect on the economic interests of commercial, professional, and health organisations. The author uses nontechnical language to guide readers through a wide array of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century technical developments that are the basis of our current understanding of the risk factor concept.

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University of Rochester Press
Language
English
Pages
466

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Subjects

Coronary Disease, Coronary heart disease, Health behavior, Health risk assessment, History, History of Medicine, 20th Cent, Life Style, Prevention & control, Preventive Medicine, Public health, Risk factors, HEALTH & FITNESS, Facteurs de risque, Forschung, MEDICAL, Koronare Herzkrankheit, Evaluation, Diseases, Arteres coronaires, Habitudes sanitaires, Medizin, History, 20th Century, Health Care Issues, Health Policy, Risikofaktor, Gesundheitsfo˜rderung, Medecine preventive, Histoire, Maladies, General, Health Care Delivery, Risques pour la sante, Aufsatzsammlung, Medicine, preventive, Risk Assessment, Lifestyles, Health aspects, Coronary heart diseases

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Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
April 1, 2008, University of Rochester Press
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2003, University of Rochester Press
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Table of Contents

The 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-454) and index.

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Rochester, NY
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Rochester studies in medical history,

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362.1
Library of Congress
RA427.3 .R68 2003, RA393

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xiii, 466 p. ;
Number of pages
466

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OL3671775M
Internet Archive
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1580461271
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2003001195
OCLC/WorldCat
51511681
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2716826
Goodreads
1932258

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