Epidemiological methods to tackle causal questions
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Epidemiological methods to tackle causal questions.
It is a dull day when there is not at least one media report of a claim that research has identified some new environmental cause of disease. Such claimed causes concern a wide range of supposed hazards including medical interventions such as the measlesmumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, the thimerasol (mercury) preservative in other vaccines, dietary factors of many different kinds (coffee, alcohol,...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn253