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Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics
Steven Woloshin
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Description for Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics
Paperback. 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. This book intends to help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messages. Num Pages: 158 pages, 18 tables, 5 halftones, 12 line drawings, 2 charts. BIC Classification: JF; MBNS; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 176 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
158
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520252226
SKU
V9780520252226
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About Steven Woloshin
Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, Lisa Schwartz, MD, MS, and H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, are general internists, faculty members at Dartmouth Medical School, and researchers in the VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs, White River Junction, Vermont. Woloshin and Schwartz have written many articles together for leading medical journals, and Welch is the author of Should I Be Tested ... Read more
Reviews for Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics
"Short and simple... Present(s) the basic skills necessary in navigating today's confusing health-media landscape. " Library Journal " Delightful and educational reading, simple enough for laypeople to understand yet academic enough to meet the needs of ... students."
L. Synovitz Choice "Know Your Chances is an accessible and empowering text." Journal Of Biosocial Science "A great reminder that ... ... Read more
L. Synovitz Choice "Know Your Chances is an accessible and empowering text." Journal Of Biosocial Science "A great reminder that ... ... Read more