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Geoffrey Rose

Epidemiologist

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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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Birth Year
1926 1
Death Year
1993 1
Nationality
British 1
Notable For
Articulating the population strategy of disease prevention 1
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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