Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Mar 2;189(3):171-174. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz197.
In response to the Galea and Hernán article, "Win-Win: Reconciling Social Epidemiology and Causal Inference" (Am J Epidemiol. 2020;189(XX):XXXX-XXXX), we offer a definition of social epidemiology. We then argue that methodological challenges most salient to social epidemiology have not been adequately addressed in quantitative causal inference, that identifying causes is a worthy scientific goal, and that quantitative causal inference can learn from social epidemiology's methodological innovations. Finally, we make 3 recommendations for quantitative causal inference.
针对 Galea 和 Hernán 的文章《双赢：调和社会流行病学与因果推断》（Am J Epidemiol. 2020;189(XX):XXXX-XXXX），我们给出了社会流行病学的定义。然后，我们认为对社会流行病学最重要的方法学挑战在定量因果推断中尚未得到充分解决，确定原因是一个有价值的科学目标，定量因果推断可以从社会流行病学的方法创新中学习。最后，我们对定量因果推断提出了 3 项建议。
