Prescription for a Healthy Nation Paperback by Deborah A. Cohen, M.D.

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2006-05-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 296 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807021170
• Item Weight: 419.58 grams
• Dimensions: 9.03 x 6.01 x 0.78 cm

Introducing a new way of thinking about health: public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show us that the antidote to our ever-growing rates of obesity and chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, lies not in our medical care system or in more health education but rather in how our environment affects our behavior.

About the Author

Tom Farley is chair of the Community Health Sciences Department at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He lives in New Orleans. Deborah A. Cohen,a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, lives in Los Angeles.