Nonlinearity in the Epidemiology of Complex Health and Disease Processes
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
- Vol. 19 (6) , 591-607
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009979306346
Abstract
The challenges posed by chronic illness have pointed out to epidemiologists the multifactorial complex nature of disease causality. This notion has been referred to as a web of causality. This web...Keywords
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