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Bias - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
WEBSometimes, the term bias is also used to refer to the mechanism that produces lack of internal validity. 1. Biases can be classified by the direction of the change they produce in a parameter (for example, the odds ratio (OR)). Toward the null bias or negative bias yields estimates closer to the null value (for example, lower and closer OR to 1 ...
Causation in epidemiology - Journal of Epidemiology
WEBThis article reviews different categories of causation in epidemiology and argues for a probabilistic definition that is consistent with scientific and public health goals. It also discusses the implications of causation for quantitative methods and the role of epidemiology as a discipline.
WEBContents June 2021 Volume 75 Issue 6 Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health jech.bmj.com Editorial 485 Adverse childhood experiences and adult health: the need for stronger study designs to evaluate impact G D China: a substudy of the China salt substitute and stroke Batty, M Kivimaki
Psychosocial factors and public health | Journal of Epidemiology ...
WEBMacleod and Davey Smith state that the aim of their paper is to critically examine the role of psychosocial factors in health. 1 Unfortunately, what could have been an interesting discussion is compromised by the authors implicit assumption that there is a single pathway linking social position to health. The authors seem to equate parsimonious causal analysis with a narrow, reductionistic ...
Life course epidemiology - Journal of Epidemiology & Community …
WEBThe interests of life course epidemiology overlap with social epidemiology, that branch of epidemiology that studies the role of social factors in the production of health and disease in populations. 21 Life course epidemiology studies how socially patterned exposures during childhood, adolescence, and early adult life influence adult disease ...
Defining equity in health - Journal of Epidemiology & Community …
WEBApr 1, 2003 · Study objective: To propose a definition of health equity to guide operationalisation and measurement, and to discuss the practical importance of clarity in defining this concept. Design: Conceptual discussion. Setting, Patients/Participants, and Main results: not applicable. Conclusions: For the purposes of measurement and operationalisation, equity in health is the absence of systematic ...
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