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Notice to Readers
Publication of An Ounce of Prevention...What Are the Returns?
The second edition of An Ounce of Prevention...What are the
Returns?
is now available. This publication outlines strategies for and
economic
benefits of health promotion and disease and injury prevention. In
addition, it outlines interventions in 19 areas of chronic and
infectious
disease and injury in which prevention can improve the quality of
life and
increase longevity. Each section presents the health impact of the
disease,
injury, or disability on U.S. society; the effectiveness of
prevention
strategies; the costs of the disease, injury, or disability; and
the
cost-effectiveness of prevention strategies.
An Ounce of Prevention is available on the World-Wide Web,
, or from CDC's Prevention
Effectiveness Branch, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic
Methods,
Epidemiology Program Office, Mailstop D-01, 1600 Clifton Road,
N.E.,
Atlanta, GA 30333; e-mail epopeb@cdc.gov.
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