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The impact of a prevention effort on the community.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2005
Wacholder Sholom
Abstract excerpt
Commonly used measures of the impact of an exposure on disease are inadequate for assessing the potential benefit of community-based efforts to prevent disease caused by the exposure in question. Because relative measures of effect, including the risk ratio, odds ratio, and population attributable risk (PAR) do not account for the absolute risk of disease, they lack the most crucial element for evaluating the...
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