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[[File:Public_Health_Rothstein.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580462863/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1580462863&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9942b2c2143d07402d78085684d6006c Public Health and the Risk Factor]'' by William G. Rothstein]]
''“The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease…Yet the impact of the risk factor has been much more uneven than the germ theory. The risk factor concept has been controversial because of its statistical methodology, its multifactorial concept of disease etiology, and its effect on the economic interests of commercial, profession, and health organizations.” (p. xi.)''
