ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2017
Invited Commentary: The Continuing Need for the Sufficient Cause Model Today.
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Recommendations for Using Causal Diagrams to Study Racial Health Disparities.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- The "sufficient cause" model framework applied to the periodontitis-systemic diseases link.Journal of periodontology · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this commentary, I review the insights that have been gained using Rothman's sufficient cause model (Am J Epidemiol. 1976;104(6):587-592). Discussion pertains to the relations of the model to similar conceptualizations in other fields of study, the advances and extensions that have been made to the model since the paper's publication, and its relation to questions of actual causation, along with questions concerning the use of the model in the future of epidemiology.
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