HESA 5320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Relative Risk, Temporality, Counterfactual Conditional

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Health Administration
• Course: HESA 5320
• Professor: Mah

Document Summary

Population level indicators and data; within a social/political/economic context: real-life behind the numbers. Localized authority within municipal government* (ontario health unit) An agent in a chronic disease is commonly diet. There is (cid:374)ot (cid:858)o(cid:374)e cause(cid:859) to disease. Temporality, but if multiple sufficient causes, components may work in different order. Different sufficient and component causes can contribute to the same case. Example (madhu pai) comparing the same population with and without the exposure to (cid:373)easure the effect ti(cid:373)e tra(cid:448)el plus. O(cid:374)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) to figure out (cid:449)hether it(cid:859)s a cause or (cid:374)ot is through a(cid:374) e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Fire arms (component cause; has to be there) Widely interpreted and used for ruling in/out whether an association could be causal (cause and effect) Criteria refer to the strength of the association; could be a potential issue because it might not be a cause, could just be there a lot of the time. Key takeaway is to approach causation with systematic scientific process hypothesis and refutation.