Is the “well-defined intervention assumption” politically conservative?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue , 2016, Pages 254-257

  Schwartz, Sharon ^a   Prins, Seth J ^a   Campbell, Ulka B ^a   Gatto, Nicolle M ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Methods; Potential outcomes; Well defined intervention

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NOTE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WELL DEFINED INTERVENTION ASSUMPTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARDS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLITICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84983197079     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.054     Document Type: Note

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