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Establishing a causal link between social relationships and health using the Bradford Hill Guidelines
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An abundance of evidence suggests that the size and quality of our social relationships improves humans' physical and mental health while increasing lifespan. However most of this evidence comes from observational rather than experimental (randomised trial) evidence, leaving open the possibility that the connection between social relationships and health could be associational rather than causal. However there are examples, including the link between smoking and lung cancer, where a cause was...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100402
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- Elsevier
- Journal:
- SSM - Population Health More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Article number:
- 100402
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-04-19
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2352-8273
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2352-8273
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31193417
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English
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pubs:1004104
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- Howick et al
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- 2019
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- © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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