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. 2008 Jul 8;337(7662):a399.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.a399.

New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century

Robert N Butler  1 , Richard A Miller, Daniel Perry, Bruce A Carnes, T Franklin Williams, Christine Cassel, Jacob Brody, Marie A Bernard, Linda Partridge, Thomas Kirkwood, George M Martin, S Jay Olshansky
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New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century

Robert N Butler et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Our susceptibility to disease increases as we grow older. Robert Butler and colleagues argue that interventions to slow down ageing could therefore have much greater benefit than those targeted at individual disease

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Contributors and sources: This article arose from the authors’ efforts to get physicians, scientists, and politicians to understand and appreciate the public health benefits that would accrue from efforts to slow ageing, and distinguish those benefits from the current medical approach to attacking one disease at a time. All authors participated in the drafting and editing of the article and approved the final version. RNB is guarantor.

Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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