Distributed in North America by CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. (Medical Education Division),
1985.
viii, 258 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Ciba Foundation symposium ;
110
"Editors, David Evered (organizer) and Julie Whelan"--P. v.
Papers presented at the Symposium on the Value of Preventive Medicine, sponsored by the Ciba Foundation and held at their headquarters in London, April 10-12, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preventive medicine : the objectives / Richard Doll -- The value of prevention : economic aspects / Bengt Jönsson -- The impact of new methods of gene analysis on screening for genetic disease / D.J. Weatherall -- Benefits, risks and costs of immunization programmes / Jeffrey P. Koplan -- Screening in adults / T.W. Meade -- Screening for cancer in adults / David M. Eddy -- Multiple risk factor intervention in coronary heart disease / Ingvar Hjermann -- Control of tobacco-related disease / Richard Peto -- Screening and intervention for alcohol-related disease in middle-aged men : the Malmö preventive programme / Bo Petersson, Hans Kristenson, Erik Trell, Bertil Hood -- The value of physical fitness in preventive medicine / Roy J. Shephard -- Role of controlled trials in evaluating preventive medicine procedures / Geoffrey Rose -- Issues in the design of future preventive medicine studies / Louise B. Russell -- Will disease prevention spare the medical commons? / Howard H. Hiatt, Milton C. Weinstein.