Epidemiology by Design

<strong>A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY EPIDEMIOLOGY </strong>Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research. Causal inference is the theoretical foundation underlying all of the above. No introduction to epidemiology is complete without extensive discussion of causal inference; what's missing is a textbook that takes such an approach.<em>Epidemiology by Design </em>takes a causal approach to the foundations of traditional introductory epidemiology. Through an organizing principle of study designs it teaches epidemiology through modern causal inference approaches including potential outcomes counterfactuals and causal identification conditions.