Lester Breslow
University of California, Los Angeles
3 Papers
Lester Breslow is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health promotion & Race and health. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications.
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Persistence of health habits and their relationship to mortality.
Lester Breslow,James E. Enstrom +1 more
TL;DR: Both the health practices themselves and their relationship to mortality are shown to be reasonably stable over the 9 1 2 -year period of follow-up, lending support to the hypothesis that good health practices and not the initial health status of the survey respondents are largely responsible for the observed mortality relationships.
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From disease prevention to health promotion.
TL;DR: During this century, disease prevention has changed largely from focusing on reducing environmental exposures over which the individual had little personal control, such as providing potable water, to emphasizing behaviors such as avoiding use of tobacco, fatty foods, and a sedentary lifestyle.
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A Framework for Public Health in the United States
TL;DR: Public heath in the United States continues to evolve to ensure healthy families and communities as well as individuals and will require strengthening the governmental and non-governmental public health systems and working closely with other sectors.