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IJE Advance Access originally published online on July 28, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(6):1212-1213; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi145
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: If economic expansion threatens public health, should epidemiologists recommend recession?

Ralph Catalano* and Benjamin Bellows

* Corresponding author: School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. E-mail: rayc@berkeley.edu

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Let us stipulate, for the sake of argument, that econometric analyses such as those described in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology correctly characterize the association between the performance of the US economy and all cause, age standardized mortality, and that the relationship generalizes to other times and more functionally and geographically discrete economies. Epidemiologists would be left, we believe, with at least two questions. First, what can we infer regarding the effect of changing economies on health from these findings? Second, what do these inferences imply for theory or public health practice?

We do not think that epidemiologists will, or should, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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