Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology
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Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology.
Identifying biological and behavioural causes of diseases has been one of the central concerns of epidemiology for the past half century. This has led to the development of increasingly sophisticated conceptual and analytical approaches focused on the isolation of single causes of disease states. However, the growing recognition that (i) factors at multiple levels, including biological, behavio...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp296