1. Preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
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Renehan, Andrew G. and Howell, Anthony
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PREVENTIVE medicine , *CANCER prevention , *CARDIOVASCULAR disease prevention , *DIABETES prevention , *HEALTH promotion , *PUBLIC health , *DISEASE risk factors , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Focuses on the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Incidence of the diseases in the U.S. and Great Britain; Report that the conditions have common risk factors, including smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity; Efforts of public health officials to encourage the prevention of disease through healthy lifestyle promotion; Impact of research on the potential for diseases prevention; Significance of obesity and physical inactivity on the risk for diseases; Critique of cancer-prevention research in the U.S. and Great Britain.
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- 2005
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