Casual Thinking in the Health Sciences

Kitap : Casual Thinking in the Health Sciences

Yazar : * Mervyn Susser

Dil : İngilizce

Bölüm : Sosyal Hekimlik

Yayın Yeri : London

Yayın Tarihi : 1973

Yayıncı : Oxford University press

Tür : Kitap

Kitap No : 3233

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Contents
The Scope of Epidemiology
The Evolution of Concepts in Epidemiology
The Concept of Environment: Hippocrates
The Concept of Specific Agents
The Concept of the Host and Immunity
Agent, Host, and Environment as an Ecological System
Abstracting Variables from Ecological Models
Uses of Models
The Logic of Multiple Causes
Frames of Reference in Causal Models
Systems and Levels of Organization
Direct and Indirect Cause
Ecological Fallacies
Procedures for Establishing Causal Associations
Types of Association between Variables