Is the "well-defined intervention assumption" politically conservative?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, USA. Electronic address: Sbs5@columbia.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Epidemiology, Worldwide Safety and Regulatory, Pfizer Inc., USA.

Sharon Schwartz et al. Soc Sci Med. 2016 Oct.

. 2016 Oct:166:254-257.

doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.054. Epub 2015 Oct 28.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, USA. Electronic address: Sbs5@columbia.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Epidemiology, Worldwide Safety and Regulatory, Pfizer Inc., USA.

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Keywords: Methods; Potential outcomes; Well-defined intervention.

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