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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality
Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality

Preferred term

Causality  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Causalities, Multifactorial
  • Causality, Multifactorial
  • Causation
  • Causation, Multiple
  • Causations
  • Causations, Multiple
  • Enabling Factor
  • Enabling Factors
  • Factor, Enabling
  • Factor, Predisposing
  • Factor, Reinforcing
  • Factors, Enabling
  • Factors, Predisposing
  • Factors, Reinforcing
  • Multifactorial Causalities
  • Multifactorial Causality
  • Multiple Causation
  • Multiple Causations
  • Predisposing Factor
  • Predisposing Factors
  • Reinforcing Factor
  • Reinforcing Factors

Note

  • an epidemiological concept: do not confuse with the cause of a disease ( = /etiol); IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol, not /etiol

Scope note

  • The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors.

History note

  • 90

In other languages

  • kausaalisuus

    Finnish

  • kausaliteetti
  • syy-yhteys
  • syyseuraus
  • syysuhde
  • Orsakssammanhang

    Swedish

  • Förstärkande faktorer
  • Kausalitet
  • Kausalsammanhang
  • Möjliggörande faktorer
  • Orsakssamband
  • Predisponerande faktorer

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015984

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