Are social causes so different from all other causes? A comment on Sander Greenland

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Are social causes so different from all other causes? A comment on Sander Greenland

Ezra Susser¹^,2 and Sharon Schwartz³

¹Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA

²Epidemiology of Brain Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY, USA

³Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA

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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2005, 2:4doi:10.1186/1742-7622-2-4


Published:	24 May 2005

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Sander Greenland's elegant paper [6] raises deep questions about the way in which we choose and evaluate public health actions. We agree with the main thrust of his argument with respect to public health policy. We have some concerns, however, about his treatment of social causes, and on this point we focus our critique.