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The International Association of Life Assurance Medicine is directly concerned with the increased risk of unnecessary man-made disease, disability, and untimely death resulting from the pollution of our environment. Let us, therefore, examine the epidemiology of the man-made diseases and the effective international application of the epidemiological principles that could lead to the control of these avoidable health problems.
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Rutstein, D.D. (1974). The Epidemiology and Control of Man-Made Diseases. In: Tanner, E. (eds) Annals of Life Insurance Medicine 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65844-0_4
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