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date: 22 September 2021

Population Thinking 

Source:
A Dictionary of Epidemiology
Author(s):

Miquel Porta

By contrast to Individual Thinking, a reasoning and mode of reasoning that dynamically integrates fluxes in human populations, sociogeographic spaces, and time. It observes, analyzes, and predicts the experiences of a whole group of people defined in a specific way (e.g., geophysically, socially, clinically, biologically).... ...

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