Disease prevention: a critical toolkit

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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.

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Full title :Disease prevention : a critical toolkit / John Frank, Ruth Jepson, Andrew James Williams.

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Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191038570, 0191038571, 9780191792816, 0191792810
oclc:ocn956319368
LC Classification:RA425
Dewey Decimal:613

Cover ; Disease Prevention A Critical Toolkit ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; About the authors ; 1 Introduction: Why we wrote this book ; 2 Basic principles of successful and unsuccessful prevention ; 3 A brief history of prevention ... and causation

4 Seeing the forest for the trees-.finding and using the evidence 5 Causation and prevention in populations versus individuals ; 6 How simple advice can sometimes be wrong-.the case of 'healthy diets'

7 Preventing chronic diseases by risk factor detection and treatment: what every health care consumer needs to know 8 Detecting disease before symptoms begin: the blemished promise of cancer screening ; 9 Genetic testing for disease prevention: oversold?

10 When can prevention expect to also reduce social inequalities in health? Postscript ; Appendix 1: Preventive actions: decision support tool ; Appendix 2: Useful resources for a critical appraisal tool kit applied to disease prevention

Appendix 3: Suggested answers for quiz questions at end of chapters Notes ; References ; Index

Subjects

health HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference Health promotion Médecine préventive MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine Medicine, Preventive Preventive Medicine Primary Prevention Promotion de la santé Santé