William G Rothstein

Public Health and the Risk Factor

A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781580462860
• ISBN-10: 1580462863
• Artikelnr.: 23143788

Inhaltsangabe

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 Diptheria 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