Like its predecessors, Building a Healthy America aims to equip the public with current statistics and plain facts about many of the major diseases and disabilities we face in this nation, such as AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes. stroke and 20 others.
Lierman gives a brief description of each, as well as up-to-date figures on the number of people afflicted, the costs in terms of medical care and lost productivity, and the amount spent on research in fiscal year 1987. Lierman also provides a summary of recent research advances, a list of organizations focusing on the disease, and a glossary of key terms. He has included numerous diagrams and charts to supplement the text. Moreover, in an introductory section called “How the Body Works,” he describes the basics of the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and nervous systems, thereby giving context to the discussion of each disease.
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