Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics (Paperback)

What This Book Is About

PART ONE. WHAT IS MY RISK?
1. Understanding Risk
2. Putting Risk in Perspective
3. Risk Charts: A Way to Get Perspective

PART TWO. CAN I REDUCE MY RISK?
4. Judging the Benefit of a Health Intervention
5. Not All Benefits Are Equal: Understand the Outcome

PART THREE. DOES RISK REDUCTION HAVE DOWNSIDES?
6. Consider the Downsides
7. Do the Benefits Outweigh the Downsides?

PART FOUR. DEVELOPING A HEALTHY SKEPTICISM
8. Beware of Exaggerated Importance
9. Beware of Exaggerated Certainty
10. Who's Behind the Numbers?

EXTRA HELP
Quick Summary
Glossary
Number Converter
Risk Charts
Credible Sources of Health Statistics

Notes
Index

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