ReviewAnnals of epidemiology2015
What matters most: quantifying an epidemiology of consequence.
Review in Annals of epidemiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Association of Childhood Adversity With Morbidity and Mortality in US Adults: A Systematic Review.JAMA pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Big Epidemiology: The Birth, Life, Death, and Resurgence of Diseases on a Global Timescale.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- JAMIA at 30: looking back and forward.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
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- Large-scale genetic investigation reveals genetic liability to multiple complex traits influencing a higher risk of ADHD.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Data, Social Determinants, and Better Decision-making for Health: the 3-D Commission.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2021Article
- Racial Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Mortality Are Driven by Unequal Infection Risks.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Defining Core Competencies for Epidemiologists in Academic Settings to Tackle Tomorrow's Health Research Challenges: A Structured, Multinational Effort.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Early origins of socioeconomic inequalities in chronic inflammation: Evaluating the contributions of low birth weight and short breastfeeding.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- RE: "INVITED COMMENTARY: METHODS FOR ESTIMATING EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGES ON HEALTH".American journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Perspectives on the Future of Epidemiology: A Framework for Training.American journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Win-Win: Reconciling Social Epidemiology and Causal Inference.American journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- From Epidemiologic Knowledge to Improved Health: A Vision for Translational Epidemiology.American journal of epidemiology · 2019Review
- Intersectionality-based quantitative health research and sex/gender sensitivity: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2019Article
- Socioeconomic Status, Principles, and Pragmatism: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2019.American journal of public health · 2019Article
- Sampling and Sampling Frames in Big Data Epidemiology.Current epidemiology reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Risk factor epidemiology has contributed to substantial public health success. In this essay, we argue, however, that the focus on risk factor epidemiology has led epidemiology to ever increasing focus on the estimation of precise causal effects of exposures on an outcome at the expense of engagement with the broader causal architecture that produces population health. To conduct an epidemiology of consequence, a systematic effort is needed to engage our science in a critical reflection both about how well and under what conditions or assumptions we can assess causal effects and also on what will truly matter most for changing population health. Such an approach changes the priorities and values of the discipline and requires reorientation of how we structure the questions we ask and the methods we use, as well as how we teach epidemiology to our emerging scholars.
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