Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change
Abstract
“Modern epidemiology” has a primary orientation to the study of multiple risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases. If epidemiologists are to understand the determinants of population health in terms that extend beyond proximate, individual-level risk factors (and their biological mediators), they must learn to apply a social-ecologic systems perspective. The mind-set and methods of modern epidemiology entail the following four main...
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Title
Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change
Published Date
May 15, 1999
Volume
149
Issue
10
Pages
887 - 897
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