A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY Epidemiology Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health, evidence-based medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.
Through an organizing principle of study designs, it teaches Epidemiology through modern causal inference approaches, including potential outcomes, counterfactuals, and causal identification conditions..
Epidemiology by Design takes a causal approach to the foundations of traditional introductory epidemiology.
No introduction to Epidemiology is complete without extensive discussion of causal inference; what\'s missing is a textbook that takes such an approach.
Causal inference is the theoretical foundation underlying all of the above.
A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY Epidemiology Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health, evidence-based medicine, and comparative effectiveness research
