What is it about?

A method to attribute diseases to multiple pathways, to evaluate the potential impact of an intervention strategy, and to allocate responsibility in tort-law liability issues.

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Why is it important?

From disease mechanisms to public health.

Perspectives

It turns out that the causal-pie model is more than just the philosophical construct as invented by Rothman 40 years ago, but an extremely powerful and useful tool in modern-day epidemiology and public health.

Wen-Chung Lee
National Taiwan University

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This page is a summary of: Attributing diseases to multiple pathways: a causal-pie modeling approach, Clinical Epidemiology, April 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/clep.s160205.
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