Revisiting rose: Comparing the benefits and costs of population-wide and targeted interventions

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 581-600

  Ahern, Jennifer ^b   Jones, Matthew R ^b   Bakshis, Erin ^b   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b School of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Computer simulation; Intervention studies; Population health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIASTOLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLE; UNITED STATES;

BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SYSTOLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56649117564     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2008.00535.x     Document Type: Article

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