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To define what key literature and source of knowledge may offer epidemiologic considerations on a human condition such as gender dysphoria and transsexualism, it might be useful to recall that etiologic epidemiology is the scientific observation of human beings for the purpose of discovering a cause of a disease and that clinical epidemiology is the study of determinants and effects of clinical decisions. In the search for both causes and effects of human conditions, the first step must be a flawless and stable definition of the condition. Once such a definition has been accepted, variants are recognized – eventually determining mutually exclusive categories – and then used for a relatively long time and in many geographic populations, and epidemiologic measures can be estimated including measures of frequency, measures of association, and measures of impact.
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Barbone, F. (2015). Epidemiologic Considerations on Transsexualism. In: Trombetta, C., Liguori, G., Bertolotto, M. (eds) Management of Gender Dysphoria. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5696-1_5
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