Risk Factors for Health Are Almost Always Distributed across a Bell Curve

<p>Geoffrey Rose argued that more could be achieved by attempting to shift the whole of the bell curve (the “population approach” to prevention) than by targeting those at highest risk (the “high-risk” approach). (Image: Adapted from a figure by John Emberson from [<a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030146#pmed-0030146-b8" target="_blank">8</a>])