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Program on Prevention
in Education & Practice
University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine

Since 1900, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. has increased from 46 years to 75 years. Much of this gain is due to prevention. Currently, about half of the deaths in the United States each year are due to potentially preventable causes. For most of the major health problems of today - cardiovascular disease, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, violence, infections, etc. - the main hope for eventual control lies in prevention. Physicians and other health care providers need to be leaders in the prevention effort.

Program on Prevention In Education & Practice
Room 383, Wing D
Campus Box 7508
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7508
(919) 966-4065
(919) 966-7499 fax

E-mail comments & questions to Amy L. Ward
Last updated 11/05/02