American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 6 : 588-589
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Poverty, Inequality, and Health: An International Perspective
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Geoffrey Rose, in his seminal paper on the causes of sickness in persons and populations (1
), contends that international comparisons are critical for the identification of factors that elevate the incidence of disease in populations. Indeed, without comparing disease patterns across populations, Rose argues that the higher the prevalence of causal factors among residents of a population, the more likely that those factors are rendered invisible. As he writes, "The hardest cause to identify is the one that is universally present" (1, p. 33). D. A. Leon and G. Walt, the editors of Poverty, Inequality, and Health: An International Perspective (2), would
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