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Causality

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Definition: The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors.  an epidemiol concept: do not confuse with the cause of a disease (   
Examples Precipitating Factors; Risk Factors 		Other names Reinforcing Factors; Predisposing Factors; Multiple Causation; Multifactorial Causality; Enabling Factors; Causation; Reinforcing Factor; Predisposing Factor; Multiple Causations; Multifactorial Causalities; Factors, Reinforcing; Factors, Predisposing; Factors, Enabling; Factor, Reinforcing; Factor, Predisposing; Factor, Enabling; Enabling Factor; Causations, Multiple; Causations; Causation, Multiple

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