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Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics

 
Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics   Author: Steven Woloshin M.D.M.S., Lisa M. Schwartz M.D.M.S., H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H.
By University of California Press
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Product Description
Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leaving the average person misinformed and confused. Know Your Chances is a lively, accessible, and carefully researched book that can help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messages. In clear and simple steps, the authors--all of them staff physicians at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont--take the mystery out of medical statistics. By learning to understand the medical statistics and knowing what questions to ask, readers will be able to see through the hype and find out what--if any--credible information remains. The book's easy-to-understand charts will help ordinary people put their health concerns into perspective.This short, reader-friendly volume will foster communication between patients and doctors and provide the basic critical-thinking skills necessary for navigating today's confusing health landscape.

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number fearful? statistics scared? want to understand what the research really says? and doesn't say? this is the book for you. get it, and reading the science times will no longer be a leap of faith!

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Product Details
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.42
EAN: 9780520252226
ISBN: 0520252225
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 158
Publication Date: 2008-11-30
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press