Behavioral Epidemiology and Disease Prevention

In the l~nited States and in Europe~ there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between individual behavior and disease. The American National Academy of Sciences (Hamberg, Elliott, and Parron, 1982)' through its Institutes of Medicine, has estimated that as many as 50 percent of chronic disease cases can be traced to individual behaviors such as smoking, diet, exercise, etc. Similar conclusions have been reached by a variety of European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306419297
• ISBN13: 9780306419294
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"