Public health and the risk factor : a history of an uneven medical revolution /

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Describes the evolution of a concept that has become central to public health and medical thought: the risk factor. The risk factor concept has been controversial because of its statistical methodology, its multifactorial concept of disease etiology, and its effect on the economic interests of comme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rothstein, William G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2003.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
Temas:
Geschichte 1900-2000.
Health risk assessment > History.
Health behavior > History.
Medicine, Preventive > History.
Coronary heart disease > Risk factors > History.
Lifestyles.
Public Health > history
Risk Factors
Coronary Disease > prevention & control
History, 20th Century
Life Style
Risques pour la santé > Évaluation > Histoire.
Habitudes sanitaires > Histoire.
Médecine préventive > Histoire.
Artères coronaires > Maladies > Facteurs de risque > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Style de vie.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
Lifestyles
Coronary heart disease > Risk factors
Health behavior
Health risk assessment
Medicine, Preventive
Risikofaktor
Forschung
Medizin
Koronare Herzkrankheit
Aufsatzsammlung
Gesundheitsförderung
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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