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ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages 669-673Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.03.013
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Causal effects; Counterfactuals; Potential outcomes
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The requirement for framing all causal questions as well-defined interventions is being promoted in the causal inference literature within epidemiology. One can consider this perspective as an intervention on the field which requires a refocusing of epidemiologic questions and retooling of epidemiologic methods. Although this intervention has produced many positive results, we think that its underlying assumptions and the possibilities of unintended consequences warrant examination. In so doing, we argue that this approach can lead to the neglect of causal identification as a useful link between associations and the estimation of intervention effects. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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