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[Etiology and prevention of disease--theory and practice]
O Lidegaard1, O Olsen, T S Kristensen
1Gynaekol obst afd, Københavns Kommunes Hvidovre Hospital.
Nordisk Medicin
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The prevention of diseases requires that their causes are known. The article presents central epidemiological concepts which relate to causality and demonstration of causal connections. It refers these to prophylactic medicine and to the future assignment of priorities as regards research funds.