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Sources of Error in Public Health Epidemiology

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The public health worker will need to have more detailed knowledge of sources of bias since he/she will mainly work with non-experimental data and will have to make decisions that may impact the health of many people in both positive and negative ways.

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  1. School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772, Box 951772, USA

    Jørn Olsen

  2. Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Sdr. Boulevard 23 A, 5000, Odense C, Denmark

    Kaare Christensen

  3. Department of Pediatrics, 2182 MedLabs, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52245, USA

    Jeff Murray MD

  4. Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden

    Anders Ekbom

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Olsen, J., Christensen, K., Murray, J., Ekbom, A. (2010). Sources of Error in Public Health Epidemiology. In: An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals. Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1497-2_21

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