Disease risk and the health of the public.
Different ways of looking at the epidemiology of health and illness in the population can influence the allocation of resources to research and public health programs. This paper presents several epidemiologic concepts of risk that are useful in making clinical and public health decisions, drawing on coronary heart disease (CHD) and its risk factors for examples.
D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D009026:Mortality; D011336:Probability; D011634:Public Health; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States