Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>This paper provides a critique of the common practice in the health-policy literature of focusing on hypothetical outcome removal at the expense of intervention analysis. The paper begins with an introduction to measures of causal effects within the potential-out...

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Main Author: Greenland Sander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-05-01
Series:Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
Online Access:http://www.ete-online.com/content/2/1/5