Public Health and the Risk Factor - A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution

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.

List 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 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

Product details

• Authors: William G Rothstein, William G. Rothstein
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9781580462860
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-286-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General