The Strategy of Preventive Medicine

Rating:
Summary: Truly innovative thinking
Review: Geoffrey Rose has taken an entirely new angle on health and disease in populations. He argues persuasively that human risk factors for disease (such as hypertension) fall on a natural bell-shaped curve, and that to prevent disease we are far better off shifting the entire curve than focusing our efforts on people identified as "high risk". His ideas are referred to by many; this is the book in which they are laid out.

Rating:
Summary: Truly innovative thinking
Review: Geoffrey Rose has taken an entirely new angle on health and disease in populations. He argues persuasively that human risk factors for disease (such as hypertension) fall on a natural bell-shaped curve, and that to prevent disease we are far better off shifting the entire curve than focusing our efforts on people identified as "high risk". His ideas are referred to by many; this is the book in which they are laid out.