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Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution: By William G. Rothstein

  • Naimi A
American Journal of Epidemiology (2009) 169(6) 781-782
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn419
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Originally published: 2003. The first part of this study explores the use of statistics in public health and medicine and how the concept of the risk factor came about. The author then describes how the concept of a healthy lifestyle was devised. Finally the author addresses the application of these concepts to risk reduction.

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Naimi, A. I. (2009). Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution: By William G. Rothstein. American Journal of Epidemiology, 169(6), 781–782. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn419

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