Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2012-10-02
Publisher: Basic Books
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0465023126
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Predictive Health pdf
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Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget—nearly 5 billion—is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health.In Predictive Health, distinguished doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns propose a solution: invest earlier—and use science and technology to make healthcare more available and affordable. Every child would begin life with a post-natal genetic screen, when potential risk—say for type II diabetes or heart disease—would be found. More data on biology, behavior, and environment would be captured throughout her life. Using this information, health-care workers and the people they care for could forge personal strategies for healthier living Download Predictive Health for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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