Post-Modern Epidemiology: Back to the Populations
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Traditional Epidemiology | Modern Epidemiology | Post-Modern Epidemiology | |
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Motivation | Public health | Science | Population health |
Level of study | Population | Individual | Multiple, social, environmental; across the life course |
Paradigms | Demography and social science | Biomedicine, clinical trial and biostatistics | Public health surveillance and population health monitoring; data science and causality |
Epistemological approach | Realist | Positivist | Consequentialist |
Level of intervention | Population | Individual | Population and individual |
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