ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2011
Challenges for epidemiologic research on the verge of a new era.
Article in European journal of epidemiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The current deconstruction of paradoxes: one sign of the ongoing methodological "revolution".European journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
- The Rotterdam Study: 2014 objectives and design update.European journal of epidemiology · 2013Article
- Exploring the genetic basis of chronic periodontitis: a genome-wide association study.Human molecular genetics · 2013Article
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Abstract
Although risk factor epidemiology has achieved much, it has its limitations (e.g., a failure to reveal causal mechanisms at multiple levels). To illustrate contemporary challenges for epidemiological research, we present a dialog with examples and argue for incorporating a "systems thinking through a life course" paradigm in epidemiological research. There is an increasing interest in moving part of public health from a discipline concerned primarily with risk factors at the individual level toward one concerned with complex causal patterns which often operate across different levels in time and space (e.g., from the molecular to the population, from the past to the future, and from the distal to the proximal). However, the methodology for discovering these complex and dynamic relationships remains to be improved. We propose strategies for taking up this challenge.
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