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Part I Why Consider Mechanisms? |
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1.1 What is the Key Evidence? |
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4 | (2) |
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1.2 The Process of Evaluating Evidence |
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1.3 Our Approach to Evaluating Evidence |
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2 An Introduction to Mechanisms |
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2.1 Mechanisms at a Glance |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (2) |
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2.3 Why Consider Evidence of Mechanisms? |
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15 | (5) |
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20 | (3) |
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3 How to Consider Evidence of Mechanisms: An Overview |
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23 | (14) |
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23 | (2) |
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3.2 Quality of Evidence and Status of Claim |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (6) |
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33 | (4) |
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Part II Tools for Working with Mechanisms |
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37 | (26) |
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37 | (2) |
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4.2 Is Your Policy Really Evidence-Based? |
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39 | (3) |
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4.3 Mechanisms in Clinical Research Appraisal Tool |
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42 | (5) |
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4.4 Mechanisms in Basic Science Research Appraisal Tool |
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47 | (3) |
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4.5 Critical Appraisal Tool for Evidence of Mechanisms |
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50 | (1) |
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4.6 GRADE-Style Tables for Mechanism Assessment |
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50 | (6) |
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4.7 Public Health and Social Care Tool |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (5) |
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5 Gathering Evidence of Mechanisms |
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5.1 Identify Specific Mechanism Hypotheses |
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64 | (4) |
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5.2 Formulate the Review Questions |
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68 | (1) |
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5.3 Search the Literature |
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69 | (1) |
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5.4 Refine Results of the Search |
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70 | (1) |
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5.5 Presenting the Evidence of Mechanisms |
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71 | (2) |
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5.6 Worked Example on Probiotics and Dental Caries |
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74 | (3) |
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6 Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms |
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6.2 Evaluating Mechanistic Studies |
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80 | (2) |
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6.3 Determining the Status of the General Mechanistic Claim |
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82 | (3) |
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6.4 Presenting the Quality of Evidence of Mechanisms |
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85 | (4) |
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89 | (2) |
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7 Using Evidence of Mechanisms to Evaluate Efficacy and External Validity |
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91 | (3) |
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94 | (3) |
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7.3 Presenting the Status of a Causal Claim |
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98 | (3) |
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Part IV Particular Applications |
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101 | (10) |
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102 | (5) |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (2) |
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9 Assessing Mechanisms in Public Health |
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111 | (1) |
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9.2 Public Health and Evidence-Based Medicine in the UK |
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112 | (1) |
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9.3 Statistical Associations and Correlations in Public Health |
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9.4 Recurrent Public Health Problems--Non-communicable Disease in the Present |
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9.5 The Individual Level and the Population Level |
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114 | (2) |
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9.6 The Biological Level and the Social Level |
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9.7 Mechanisms of Disease and Mechanisms of Prevention |
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119 | (2) |
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10 Particularisation to an Individual |
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