4227.0 Operationalizing Heart Disease: Methods, Approaches, and Classifications in Coronary Vascular Disease Research, 1880 to 1980 Invited session: Jointly organized with Epidemiology Section

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session will discuss the history of heart disease from a variety of aspects. Session will explore the history and epidemiology of the classification and treatment of heart disease and how its study has impacted public health in the current day.
Session Objectives: 1-Demonstrate how doctors and health researchers have attempted to attribute the decline in cardiovascular mortality since the 1970s to various medical and public health interventions, and appreciate the limits of the methods used to make these arguments. 2-Analyze health statistics over long periods with greater insight, particularly to the effect of broad changes in disease ecology and life expectancy on classification. 3-Discuss changes taking place in the methods of cardiovascular disease epidemiology in the early twentieth century, and the effect that these changes had on subsequent public health approaches
Organizer:
Sejal S. Patel, PhD
Moderator:
Gerald Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH
Discussant:
Sarah W. Tracy, PhD

12:30 PM
Is an Ounce of Prevention Actually Worth an Ounce of Cure? Accounting for the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality, 1974-2010
Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD and David Jones, MD, PhD
     
12:50 PM
Death of Old Age and the Epidemic of Coronary Heart Disease
Carla Keirns, MD, PhD, MSc
1:10 PM
Methods and Management: NIH Administrators, Risk Factor Epidemiology, and the Framingham Heart Study
Sejal S. Patel, PhD
1:30 PM
Cardiovascular Disease and the Birth of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, 1920-1940
Aaron Mauck, PhD

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Organized by: Medical Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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