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

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

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Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History, Book 3

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1580462863
ISBN13: 9781580462860
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public health and preventive medicine have been the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles as methods of preventing disease. A risk factor is anything that increases the riskof disease in an individual. Lifestyle refers to the individual's personal behaviors with regard to risk factors. Identifying risk factors and modifying them by changing lifestyles in order to prevent disease has become ubiquitousas a strategy in public health.

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