Translational public health: rehearsing the evidence until the task is done

Leung, Gabriel M.; Gray, Selena

doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdn066

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“…A discussion in the pages of this journal in 2008, for example, 'revisited the whole idea of causality in the public health sciences'. 30 Particularly in the context of noninfectious diseases, causal factors are often unclear and given the lack of a coherent explanation, public health interventions thus become problematic. 31 To be sure, all disciplines borrow from different frames of reference.…”

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Contagion: epidemiological models and financial crises

Peckham

2013

Journal of Public Health

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Since the 1990s, economists have drawn on the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases to explain the diffusion of shock through an increasingly complex financial system. The successful coordination of public health responses to disease threats, and in particular the epidemiological modelling underpinning infection control, has influenced economists' understanding of the risks posed to the stability of the financial system by 'contagion'. While the exportation of analytic models and frames of reference can be fruitful, reinvigorating the destination domain, such analogizing can have a distorting effect. There are differences between biological and financial systems. Moreover, the migration of highly context-specific epidemiological models may undermine the basis of the analogy. Finally, there may be repercussions for the efficacy of public health in the way that its aims are misconstrued in financial analyses.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%