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Prevention paradox in alcohol-related problems
Does the Rose’s prevention paradox apply in alcohol-related problems? In 1986, a year after the Rose’s paper, Norman Kreitman found an answer affirmatively to the above question. He published his findings in the British Journal of Addiction. As Rose did, Kreitman also used others’ data in his exploration. Kreitman’s paper…
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Prevention Paradox
Consider the following scenario with regard to coronary heart disease in a given population; Look at the following bar chart. I created it using Geoffrey Rose’s data. He had obtained it from the UK Heart Disease Prevention Project. As we can see in the above bar chart, as many as…
