A British epidemiologist known for the population strategy of prevention, the argument that a small shift in risk across an entire population often prevents more disease than concentrating resources on the high risk minority alone, an idea now taught widely as a founding insight of preventive public health.
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Notable ForArticulating the population strategy of disease prevention 1 Connections
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