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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Westreich, Daniel

Titel

From patients to policy: population intervention effects in epidemiology

Ist Teil von

• Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2017-07, Vol.28 (4), p.525-528

Ort / Verlag

United States: Copyright Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Interest in implementation science and recent calls for consequentialist epidemiology urge epidemiologists to produce work more immediately applicable to public health practice. A clear vocabulary for such approaches is lacking. Here, we present a potential taxonomy of causal effects, distinguishing between “exposure effects” more relevant to patients and individuals; and “population intervention effects” more relevant to public health policy. We discuss this range of effects using figures and a simple numerical example.