Sick Individuals and Sick Populations
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Sick individuals and sick populations.
Aetiology confronts two distinct issues: the determinants of individual cases, and the determinants of incidence rate. If exposure to a necessary agent is homogeneous within a population, then case/control and cohort methods will fail to detect it: they will only identify markers of susceptibility. The corresponding strategies in control are the 'high-risk' approach, which seeks to protect susc...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/14.1.32