Traditionally,
medical education focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of individual
patients. The disciplines of biostatistics, epidemiology, genetic
and molecular epidemiology, and health services research, however,
deal with the diagnosis and analysis of health issues in large
human populations. The results of human studies in these fields
have had an enormous impact on the health related behavior of
the American population. One example is the decrease in cigarette
smoking and the elimination of cigarette smoking from public buildings
in our society. Another visible example is the change in the American
diet, away from fat and cholesterol. |
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