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Rose's strategy of preventive medicine : the complete original text / Geoffrey Rose ; with a commentary by Kay-Tee Khaw, Michael Marmot
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rose, G. A. (Geoffrey Arthur), Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (132 sider.)
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years research, sets out the case that the essential determinants of the health of society are tobe found in its mass characteristics.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Author
- Dedication
- Preface to the original edition
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- Commentary
- Introduction
- The Rose concepts and applications
- Social characteristics
- Conclusions
- References
- The Strategy of Preventive Medicine
- 1 The objectives of preventive medicine
- The scope for prevention
- Why seek to prevent?
- Priorities: a matter of choice
- 2 What needs to be prevented?
- Sick individuals
- A continuum of risk
- A unified approach to prevention
- 3 The relation of risk to exposure
- The dose-effect relationship
- The limitations of research
- Small but widespread risks: a public health disaster?
- 4 Prevention for individuals and the 'high-risk' strategy
- Prevention and clinical care
- The high-risk strategy
- Identifying risk: screening
- Strengths of the high-risk preventive strategy
- Weaknesses of the high-risk preventive strategy
- 5 Individuals and populations
- Individual variation
- Variation between populations
- Sick and healthy populations
- 6 Some implications of population change
- Effects of the population average on the occurrence of deviance
- Health implications for the population as a whole
- Safety
- 7 The population strategy of prevention
- Principles
- Strengths of the population strategy
- Limitations and problems
- 8 In search of health
- How do populations change?
- The scientific justification for change
- Social engineering versus individual freedom
- Who takes the decisions?
- The largest threat to public health: war
- Social and economic deprivation
- Responsibility for health
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780191538773
- 0191538779
- 9780191015595
- 0191015598
- OCLC:
- 858762968
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