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Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes
This paper provides a critique of the common practice in the health-policy literature of focusing on hypothetical outcome removal at the expense of intervention analysis. The paper begins with an introduction to measures of causal effects within the potential-outcomes framework, focusing on underlyi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15921514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-2-5 |
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description | This paper provides a critique of the common practice in the health-policy literature of focusing on hypothetical outcome removal at the expense of intervention analysis. The paper begins with an introduction to measures of causal effects within the potential-outcomes framework, focusing on underlying conceptual models, definitions and drawbacks of special relevance to policy formulation based on epidemiologic data. It is argued that, for policy purposes, one should analyze intervention effects within a multivariate-outcome framework to capture the impact of major sources of morbidity and mortality. This framework can clarify what is captured and missed by summary measures of population health, and shows that the concept of summary measure can and should be extended to multidimensional indices. |
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spelling | pubmed-11808432005-07-28 Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes Greenland, Sander Emerg Themes Epidemiol Analytic Perspective This paper provides a critique of the common practice in the health-policy literature of focusing on hypothetical outcome removal at the expense of intervention analysis. The paper begins with an introduction to measures of causal effects within the potential-outcomes framework, focusing on underlying conceptual models, definitions and drawbacks of special relevance to policy formulation based on epidemiologic data. It is argued that, for policy purposes, one should analyze intervention effects within a multivariate-outcome framework to capture the impact of major sources of morbidity and mortality. This framework can clarify what is captured and missed by summary measures of population health, and shows that the concept of summary measure can and should be extended to multidimensional indices. BioMed Central 2005-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC1180843/ /pubmed/15921514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-2-5 Text en Copyright © 2005 Greenland; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Analytic Perspective Greenland, Sander Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
title | Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
title_full | Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
title_fullStr | Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
title_short | Epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
title_sort | epidemiologic measures and policy formulation: lessons from potential outcomes |
topic | Analytic Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15921514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-2-5 |
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