Recent methodological innovation is giving rise to an increasing number of applied papers
in medical and epidemiological journals in which natural direct and indirect effects are …

Population health intervention research (PHIR) seeks to develop and evaluate policies,
programmes and other types of interventions that may affect population health and health …

Many epidemiological studies showed associations of low birth weight with cardiovascular
disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity. The associations seem to be consistent and stronger …

Recent theory in causal inference has provided concepts for mediation analysis and effect
decomposition that allow one to decompose a total effect into a direct and an indirect effect …

Abstract The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal
life until young adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic …

Recent criticism of epidemiologic methods has focused on the limitations of 'black
box'epidemiology, a pejorative label given to the simple identification of exposure–disease …

Graphical models are useful tools in causal inference, and causal directed acyclic graphs
(DAGs) are used extensively to determine the variables for which it is sufficient to control for …

The concepts of mediation and mechanism are contrasted and logical implications holding
between theses two concepts are described. The concept of mediation can be formalized …

Background The link between long working hours and health has been extensively studied
for decades. Despite global concern regarding metabolic syndrome, however, no studies to …

Abstract Introduction The United States is responsible for the highest incarceration rate
globally. This study aimed to explore the impact of partner incarceration on maternal …