Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding of Population Health.

• Autores: Jacob Bor
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 106, Nº. 8, 2016, págs. 1388-1389
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author reflects on the need for natural experiments to improve understanding of population health in public health research. He mentions Dr. John Snow's 1853 study of cholera in the inhabitants of London, England who had drinking water supplied by companies upstream or downstream of London's sewage outflows and his causal theory on cholera's spread. He considers the lack of prominence of natural experiments and talks about the growth of randomized trials and observational research methods.