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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a history of an uneven medical revolution

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Pages
466

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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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Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution
2003, University of Rochester Press
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Public health and the risk factor: a history of an uneven medical revolution
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.

Edition Notes

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

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Rochester, NY
Series
Rochester studies in medical history,

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.1
Library of Congress
RA427.3 .R68 2003, RA393

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 466 p. ;
Number of pages
466

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Open Library
OL3671775M
Internet Archive
publichealthrisk00roth
ISBN 10
1580461271
LCCN
2003001195
OCLC/WorldCat
51511681
Library Thing
2716826
Goodreads
1932258

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