Collection
Essays
- Submission status
- Open
- Open for submission from
- 19 July 2022
- Submission deadline
- Ongoing
The European Journal of Epidemiology publishes each month an essay addressing a pressing current epidemiologic topic, an important conceptual issue, or an overview of methodologic innovations in epidemiology. These essays are, on invitation, written by prominent epidemiologists.
If you have an idea for an essay please contact the Publisher Sabine Mohr (sabine.mohr@springer.com).
All articles undergo a single blind peer review process with 2 reviewers. The decision on acceptance of an article is made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Articles (42 in this collection)
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Higher-order evidence
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Stephen R. Cole
- Bonnie E. Shook-Sa
- Michael G. Hudgens
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 10 January 2024
- Pages: 1 - 11
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Bias assessment and correction for Levin’s population attributable fraction in the presence of confounding
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- John Ferguson
- Alberto Alvarez
- Martin O’Donnell
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 03 January 2024
- Pages: 111 - 119
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Slow data public health
Authors
- Arnaud Chiolero
- Stefano Tancredi
- John P. A. Ioannidis
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 03 October 2023
- Pages: 1219 - 1225
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Case–control matching on confounders revisited
Authors
- Mohammad Ali Mansournia
- Charles Poole
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 14 September 2023
- Pages: 1025 - 1034
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When gold standards are not so golden: prevalence bias in randomized trials on endoscopic colorectal cancer screening
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Hermann Brenner
- Thomas Heisser
- Michael Hoffmeister
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 02 August 2023
- Pages: 933 - 937
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Influence of analytic methods, data sources, and repeated measurements on the population attributable fraction of lifestyle risk factors
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- You Wu
- Hanseul Kim
- Edward L. Giovannucci
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 06 June 2023
- Pages: 717 - 728
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The underwhelming German life expectancy
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Domantas Jasilionis
- Alyson A. van Raalte
- Pavel Grigoriev
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 25 April 2023
- Pages: 839 - 850
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Inferring fetal growth restriction as rare, severe, and stable over time
Authors
- Allen J Wilcox
- Olga Basso
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 13 April 2023
- Pages: 455 - 464
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Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review
Authors (first, second and last of 24)
- Chepkoech Buttia
- Erand Llanaj
- Taulant Muka
- Content type: REVIEW
- Open Access
- Published: 25 February 2023
- Pages: 355 - 372
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Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Francisco Pozo-Martin
- Miguel Angel Beltran Sanchez
- Charbel El Bcheraoui
- Content type: REVIEW
- Open Access
- Published: 16 February 2023
- Pages: 243 - 266
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SARS-CoV-2 elicits non-sterilizing immunity and evades vaccine-induced immunity: implications for future vaccination strategies
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Anna L. Beukenhorst
- Clarissa M. Koch
- Jaap Goudsmit
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 04 February 2023
- Pages: 237 - 242
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The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?
Authors (first, second and last of 8)
- Jorge Arias de la Torre
- Amy Ronaldson
- Ioannis Bakolis
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 16 January 2023
- Pages: 349 - 353
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Regression-based estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects when extending inferences from a randomized trial to a target population
Authors
- Sarah E. Robertson
- Jon A. Steingrimsson
- Issa J. Dahabreh
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 10 January 2023
- Pages: 123 - 133
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Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment
Authors
- Stephen Senn
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 07 December 2022
- Pages: 1 - 10
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Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Louisa H. Smith
- Xabier GarcÃa-Albéniz
- Miguel A. Hernán
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 26 October 2022
- Pages: 1205 - 1213
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Estimating conditional vaccine effectiveness
Authors
- John P. A. Ioannidis
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 26 September 2022
- Pages: 885 - 890
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The effect of farming environment on asthma; time dependent or universal?
Authors (first, second and last of 17)
- Marie Kjær Madsen
- Vivi Schlünssen
- Signe Timm
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 27 July 2022
- Pages: 779 - 788
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A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction
Authors
- David Bellamy
- Miguel A. Hernán
- Andrew Beam
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 06 July 2022
- Pages: 563 - 568
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Vitamin D food fortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Tobias Niedermaier
- Thomas Gredner
- On behalf of the PEN-Consortium
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 06 May 2022
- Pages: 309 - 320
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COVID-19 prevalence and mortality in longer-term care facilities
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Andrew T. Levin
- Juulia Jylhävä
- Laura Shallcross
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 10 April 2022
- Pages: 227 - 234
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Protecting against researcher bias in secondary data analysis: challenges and potential solutions
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Jessie R. Baldwin
- Jean-Baptiste **ault
- Marcus R. Munafò
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 13 January 2022
- Pages: 1 - 10
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The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Allen J. Wilcox
- Marianna Cortese
- Olga Basso
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 18 October 2021
- Pages: 985 - 991
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The origin of Modern Epidemiology, the book
Authors
- Kenneth J. Rothman
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 28 August 2021
- Pages: 763 - 765
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Improving the reporting of non-inferiority trials by incorporating non-efficacy benefits: not all non-inferiority trials are created equal
Authors
- Sergio A. Acuna
- Fahima Dossa
- Tyler R. Chesney
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 19 July 2021
- Pages: 1097 - 1101
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Assessing knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards causal directed acyclic graphs: a qualitative research project
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Ruby Barnard-Mayers
- Ellen Childs
- Eleanor J. Murray
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 10 June 2021
- Pages: 659 - 667
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Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths
Authors
- John P. A. Ioannidis
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 28 July 2021
- Pages: 581 - 588
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Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Alice R. Carter
- Eleanor Sanderson
- Laura D. Howe
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 07 May 2021
- Pages: 465 - 478
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The rise and fall of diseases: reflections on the history of population health in Europe since ca. 1700
Authors
- Johan P. Mackenbach
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 20 February 2021
- Pages: 1199 - 1205
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Does death from Covid-19 arise from a multi-step process?
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- Neil Pearce
- Giovenale Moirano
- Adnan Custovic
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 18 January 2021
- Pages: 1 - 9
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Overdiagnosis: one concept, three perspectives, and a model
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Bjørn Hofmann
- Lynette Reid
- Wendy Rogers
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 11 January 2021
- Pages: 361 - 366
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Assessing causality in epidemiology: revisiting Bradford Hill to incorporate developments in causal thinking
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Michal Shimonovich
- Anna Pearce
- Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 16 December 2020
- Pages: 873 - 887
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When will individuals meet their personalized probabilities? A philosophical note on risk prediction
Authors
- Olaf M. Dekkers
- Jesse M. Mulder
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 28 November 2020
- Pages: 1115 - 1121
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Generalizing experimental results by leveraging knowledge of mechanisms
Authors
- Carlos Cinelli
- Judea Pearl
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 18 October 2020
- Pages: 149 - 164
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Assessment of cancer screening effectiveness in the era of screening programs
Authors
- Hans-Olov Adami
- Michael Bretthauer
- Mette Kalager
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 14 September 2020
- Pages: 891 - 897
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Forecasting efforts from prior epidemics and COVID-19 predictions
Authors
- Pranay Nadella
- Akshay Swaminathan
- S. V. Subramanian
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 17 July 2020
- Pages: 727 - 729
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Good science is good science: we need specialists, not sects
Authors
- Marc Lipsitch
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 20 June 2020
- Pages: 519 - 522
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Rethinking morbidity compression
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Rosie Seaman
- Andreas Höhn
- Kaare Christensen
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 16 May 2020
- Pages: 381 - 388
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Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19
Authors
- Emily A. Harrison
- Julia W. Wu
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 22 April 2020
- Pages: 325 - 330
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Applying the exposome concept in birth cohort research: a review of statistical approaches
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Susana Santos
- Léa Maitre
- Martine Vrijheid
- Content type: ESSAY
- Open Access
- Published: 27 March 2020
- Pages: 193 - 204
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Contributions of the UK biobank high impact papers in the era of precision medicine
Authors
- Peter Glynn
- Philip Greenland
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 28 January 2020
- Pages: 5 - 10
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Genetic instrumental variable analysis: time to call mendelian randomization what it is. The example of alcohol and cardiovascular disease
Authors
- Kenneth J. Mukamal
- Meir J. Stampfer
- Eric B. Rimm
- Content type: ESSAY
- Published: 24 November 2019
- Pages: 93 - 97