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Public health and the risk factor : a history of an uneven medical revolution / William G. Rothstein.
Van Pelt Library RA427.3 .R68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothstein, William G.
- Series:
- Rochester studies in medical history 1526-2715
- Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health risk assessment--History.
- Health risk assessment.
- Health behavior--History.
- Health behavior.
- Medicine, Preventive--History.
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Coronary heart disease--Risk factors--History.
- Coronary heart disease.
- Public Health--history.
- Risk Factors.
- Coronary Disease--prevention & control.
- History, 20th Century.
- Life Style.
- Coronary heart disease--Risk factors.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health--history.
- Risk Factors.
- Coronary Disease--prevention & control.
- History, 20th Century.
- Life Style.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 466 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- A look at how the concept of 'risk factor' has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-454) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1580461271
- OCLC:
- 51511681
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