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Continuing professional education
Streets of Paris, sunflower seeds, and Nobel prizes. Reflections on the quantitative paradigm of public health
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Quantitative methods are central to public health and public health research. The historical roots and philosophical foundations of this predilection for the quantitative, however, are little known and seldom discussed.
- history
- mathematics
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Funding: none.
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Conflicts of interest: none declared.
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This paper is based on a New Year’s dinner’s speech, held for the Department of Public Health at Erasmus Medical Center in January 2003.
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