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Evidence-Based Public Health: Origins, Assumptions, and Cautions

  • Avilés L
  • Filc D
Springer US, (2011), 21-37
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1499-6_3
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This chapter presents the origins and assumptions of evidence-based medicine as rooted in the philosophy of science called positivism. The basic principles of the positivist approach to science, empiricism, exclusivity, universality, and autonomy are explained and...

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Avilés, L. A., & Filc, D. (2011). Evidence-Based Public Health: Origins, Assumptions, and Cautions. In Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes (pp. 21–37). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1499-6_3

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