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Identifying and understanding causes of disease is arguably the central aim of the discipline of epidemiology. However, while the discipline has matured over the past sixty years, developing a battery of quantitative tools and methods for data analysis, the discipline of epidemiology lacks an explicit, shared theoretical account of causation. Moreover, some epidemiologists exhibit discomfort with...
The concept of causal webs, which emphasises complex multiple causation of disease and injury, diverts attention and resources from preventive brooms that can sweep away the webs to reduce harm despite multiple causation. Epidemiologists who focus primarily on specification of causal paths in webs may overlook the modifiable necessary conditions for disease and injury. Necessary causes for disease...
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