Sick individuals and sick populations.
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Summary
Aetiology confronts two distinct issues: the determinant of individual cases, and the determinants of incidence rate: if exposure to a necessary agent is homogeneous within a population, then case/control and cohort methods will fail to detect it.
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- article
- Published
- 1985-03-01
- Cited by
- 4,053
- References
- 9
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- Open access
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Keywords
Sick leave, Medicine, Physical therapy
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