Epidemiology by Design —— A Causal Approach to the Health Sciences

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ISBN: 9780190665760 出版年：2019 页码：241 Daniel Westreich (associate Professor Epidemiology Associate Professor Epidemiology University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill) Oxford University Press

A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY EPIDEMIOLOGY Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health, evidence-based medicine, and comparative effectiveness research. Causal inference is the theoretical foundation underlying all of the above. No introduction to epidemiology is complete without extensive discussion of causal inference; what's missing is a textbook that takes such an approach. Epidemiology by Design takes a causal approach to the foundations of traditional introductory epidemiology. Through an organizing principle of study designs, it teaches epidemiology through modern causal inference approaches, including potential outcomes, counterfactuals, and causal identification conditions.