DISEASES -- Causes & theories of causationInvestigates the food poisoning outbreak at Stanley Royd Hospital in Great Britain. Etiology of food poisoning; Prevention of the disease; Recommendation for kitchen inspections.doi:10.1136/bmj.292.6528.1140-a...
When biomedical knowledge and technology create the capacity for humans to avoid disease and circumvent early death, sociological factors become more, not less important for population health. The transformation of disease causation from cruel fate, accident, and bad luck to circumstances that are under...
A life course approach to health and human development provides a conceptual and methodological framework to understand the multiple, multilevel, and synchronized (i.e. temporally integrated) determinants of health and disease across the lifespan. Theories underlying life course approaches are varied, ...
The relationship between ADs, smoking behavior and nicotine dependence (ND) could be explained by three non-mutually exclusive relationships. Firstly, smoking behavior and/or ND may increase the chances of developing an AD. Potential mechanisms underpinning this include adverse effects of smoking on ne...