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Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance

Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979), 2012-12, Vol.66 (12), p.1182-1186 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance
Author: Craig, Peter ; Cooper, Cyrus ; Gunnell, David ; Haw, Sally ; Lawson, Kenny ; Macintyre, Sally ; Ogilvie, David ; Petticrew, Mark ; Reeves, Barney ; Sutton, Matt ; Thompson, Simon
Subjects: Air pollution ; Alcohol ; Bias ; Biological and medical sciences ; Biomedical Research ; Community health ; Councils ; death certification ; Epidemiology ; Experimentation ; Experiments ; General aspects ; Guidelines as Topic ; Health disparities ; Humans ; Infrastructure ; Instrumental variables ; Intervention ; Medical research ; Medical sciences ; Methods ; Miscellaneous ; Mortality ; Natural experiments ; Outdoor air quality ; Periodicals as Topic - standards ; Population ; Population health ; Psychoeducational intervention ; Public Health ; public health policy ; Public health. Hygiene ; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine ; Publishing - standards ; Research Design - standards ; Research methodology ; Research methods ; Research Report - standards ; Researchers ; Studies ; suicide ; systematic reviews ; Theory and methods
Is Part Of: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979), 2012-12, Vol.66 (12), p.1182-1186
Description: Natural experimental studies are often recommended as a way of understanding the health impact of policies and other large scale interventions. Although they have certain advantages over planned experiments, and may be the only option when it is impossible to manipulate exposure to the intervention, natural experimental studies are more susceptible to bias. This paper introduces new guidance from the Medical Research Council to help researchers and users, funders and publishers of research evidence make the best use of natural experimental approaches to evaluating population health interventions. The guidance emphasises that natural experiments can provide convincing evidence of impact even when effects are small or take time to appear. However, a good understanding is needed of the process determining exposure to the intervention, and careful choice and combination of methods, testing of assumptions and transparent reporting is vital. More could be learnt from natural experiments in future as experience of promising but lesser used methods accumulates.
Publisher: London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0143-005X
EISSN: 1470-2738
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200375
PMID: 22577181
CODEN: JECHDR
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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