Explanation in Public Health

In Sridhar Venkatapuram & Alex Broadbent (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Public Health. Routledge (2018)
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Abstract

In this chapter, I first outline the public health workflow from assessment via goal definition and intervention to evaluation. Further, I discuss the types and subtypes of explanation used in public health research and practice: scientific, justificatory, methodological, and prospective. In doing this, I take the discussion far beyond the usual focus in philosophy of science as answers to “why?”-questions. The chapter ends with a few comments on my proposal.

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Olaf Dammann
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