BookJohn Frank, Ruth Jepson, Andrew James Williams.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
Introduction : why we wrote this book
Basic principles of successful and unsuccessful prevention
A brief history of prevention...and causation
Seeing the forest for the trees : finding and using the evidence
Causation and prevention in populations versus individuals
How simple advice can sometimes be wrong : the case of 'healthy diets'
Preventing chronic diseases by risk factor detection and treatment : what every health care consumer needs to know
Detecting disease before symptoms begin : the blemished promise of cancer screening
Genetic testing for disease prevention : oversold?
When can prevention expect to also reduce social inequalities in health?