Disease prevention : a critical toolkit / John Frank, Ruth Jepson, and Andrew James Williams
- 作者： Frank, John A. Jr. 1949-
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- 出版： Oxford, UK ;New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2016
- 主題： Medicine, Preventive. , Primary Prevention. , Health promotion.
- ISBN： 9780198725862 (pbk.) :: US$32.37
- 一般註：Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-209) and index
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- 系統號： 005241402 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
Provides a set of appraisal tools to guide those considering a preventive action to make sure that it is effective (does more good than harm), efficient (is a competitive use of scarce resources), and equitable in its impact across society.-- Source other than Library of Congress
內容註
Introduction : why we wrote this book -- Basic principles of successful and unsuccessful prevention -- A brief history of prevention...and causation -- Seeing the forest for the trees : finding and using the evidence -- Causation and prevention in populations versus individuals -- How simple advice can sometimes be wrong : the case of 'healthy diets' -- Preventing chronic diseases by risk factor detection and treatment : what every health care consumer needs to know -- Detecting disease before symptoms begin : the blemished promise of cancer screening -- Genetic testing for disease prevention : oversold? -- When can prevention expect to also reduce social inequalities in health?