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J N Morris

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PubMed1982

Epidemiology and prevention.

Any national strategy of preventing disease and promoting health cannot ignore the implications of social deprivation. As social policy moves away from principles of universal provision and towards greater selectivity, there will be an onus on epidemiology to help identify those who are vulnerable--economically, chemically, and environmentally, as well as biologically. The uncertainty of current knowledge about lifestyles calls for new experiments, not merely observation and disputation.

Epidemiology↗
PubMed1981

Cost-benefit analysis of an emergency alarm and response system: a case study of a long-term care program.

Cost-benefit analyses are routinely included in evaluations of acute care programs. In the case of long-term care, it is frequently alleged that cost-benefit analysis cannot be fruitfully applied. This article demonstrates the utility of applying cost-benefit analysis to evaluations of long-term care programs. A case study is presented in which cost-benefit analysis is used to evaluate an emergency alarm and response system developed to monitor the safety of vulnerable and disabled persons in their home environment.

Aged↗
PubMed1980

Vigorous exercise in leisure-time: protection against coronary heart disease.

1138 first clinical episodes of coronary heart disease (CHD) in 17 944 middle-aged male office workers in the Civil Service are reported. Men who engaged in vigorous sports, keep-fit, and the like during an initial survey in 1968-70 had an incidence of CHD in the next 8 1/2 years somewhat less than half that of their colleagues who recorded no vigorous exercise. The CHD rates of men who took such vigorous exercise were lower in both fatal and non-fatal clinical manifestations, though more so in fatal; throughout the age-range studied, though more striking in later middle age and early old age; and in all other sub-groups examined, including men with a family history of CHD, the obese, the short of stature, cigarette smokers, and men with severe hypertension and subclinical angina, as well as in those in favourable situations for CHD or neutral. The generality of the advantage suggests that vigorous exercise is a natural defence of the body, with a protective effect on the ageing heart against ischaemia and its consequences.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Scottish hearts.

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Coronary Disease↗
PubMed1979

Social inequalities undiminished.

Traditional differences in death-rates by social class continue in Britain in the 1970s, mostly at lower levels of mortality. The professions do well, unskilled workers and their families particularly badly. Data on health services are scanty, but they suggest that lower-class families, with greater needs, do not make proportionate demands on some services and receive less of others. Continuing socioeconomic inequalities, disparities in child health and education, and current smoking and exercise habits indicate that inequalities in health will persist. Some ways of levelling up are suggested, starting with children: by creating more equal opportunities for the under-5s through education and day care, expanding child benefit and family endowment, concentrating health services on the socially disadvantaged, and setting an upgraded "health education" to the task--with mothers and children and the whole population.

Acute Disease↗