Open AccessFrom Patients to Policy
Author(s) -
Daniel Westreich
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000000648
Subject(s) - vocabulary , public health , epidemiology , intervention (counseling) , public health policy , public policy , population , medicine , health policy , computer science , management science , political science , environmental health , pathology , economics , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , law
Interest in implementation science and recent calls for consequentialist epidemiology urge epidemiologists to produce work more immediately applicable to public health practice. A clear vocabulary for such approaches is lacking. Here, we present a potential taxonomy of causal effects, distinguishing between "exposure effects" more relevant to patients and individuals; and "population intervention effects" more relevant to public health policy. We discuss this range of effects using figures and a simple numerical example.