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      Pesquisa avaliativa e epidemiologia: movimentos e síntese no processo de avaliação de programas de saúde Translated title: Evaluative research and epidemiology: trends and synthesis in the health programs evaluation process

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          Este artigo enfoca alguns antecedentes da avaliação de programas de saúde e aponta a diversidade de teorias e métodos que informam o campo. Com o objetivo de fornecer subsídios para pesquisas avaliativas em HIV/AIDS, discutem-se alguns pressupostos clássicos da epidemiologia, em especial da teoria de inferência causal e seus limites na abordagem de enfermidades infecciosas. Argumenta-se que os debates recentes acerca da lógica e aplicabilidade dos estudos de tipo ecológico marcam interesses convergentes entre a epidemiologia e a pesquisa avaliativa, preocupada na incorporação de variáveis contextuais nos modelos de análise. Explicitam-se preceitos e tipologias da pesquisa avaliativa contemporânea com vistas à defesa de um modelo de análise de processos de saúde-doença na perspectiva da avaliação de ações e programas. Por fim, sublinham-se os propósitos comuns e movimentos convergentes da epidemiologia e da pesquisa avaliativa, que servem de referência à discussão sobre os limites e potencialidades do modelo proposto.

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          This article focuses on antecedents in the evaluation of health programs and highlights the diversity of theories and methods applied to the field. In order to provide support for evaluative research in HIV/AIDS, the article discusses several classical principles in epidemiology, particularly the theory of causal inference and its limits for approaching infectious diseases. The article contends that recent debates concerning the logic and applicability of ecological studies establish convergent interests between epidemiology and evaluative research, concerned with incorporating contextual variables into the analytical models. The principles and typologies of contemporary evaluative research are explained with a view towards defending an analytical model for health-disease processes from the perspective of evaluating actions and programs. The article concludes by highlighting common proposals and convergent trends in epidemiology and evaluative research, serving as the framework for discussion on the limits and potentialities of the proposed model.

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            Epidemiology and the web of causation: has anyone seen the spider?

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            'Multiple causation' is the canon of contemporary epidemiology, and its metaphor and model is the 'web of causation.' First articulated in a 1960 U.S. epidemiology textbook, the 'web' remains a widely accepted but poorly elaborated model, reflecting in part the contemporary stress on epidemiologic methods over epidemiologic theories of disease causation. This essay discusses the origins, features, and problems of the 'web,' including its hidden reliance upon the framework of biomedical individualism to guide the choice of factors incorporated in the 'web.' Posing the question of the whereabouts of the putative 'spider,' the author examines several contemporary approaches to epidemiologic theory, including those which stress biological evolution and adaptation and those which emphasize the social production of disease. To better integrate biologic and social understandings of current and changing population patterns of health and disease, the essay proposes an ecosocial framework for developing epidemiologic theory. Features of this alternative approach are discussed, a preliminary image is offered, and debate is encouraged.
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              Choosing a future for epidemiology: II. From black box to Chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology.

              Part I of this paper traced the evolution of modern epidemiology in terms of three eras, each with its dominant paradigm, culminating in the present era of chronic disease epidemiology with its paradigm, the black box. This paper sees the close of the present era and foresees a new era of eco-epidemiology in which the deployment of a different paradigm will be crucial. Here a paradigm is advocated for the emergent era. Encompassing many levels of organization--molecular and societal as well as individual--this paradigm, termed Chinese boxes, aims to integrate more than a single level in design, analysis, and interpretation. Such a paradigm could sustain and refine a public health-oriented epidemiology. But preventing a decline of creative epidemiology in this new era will require more than a cogent scientific paradigm. Attention will have to be paid to the social processes that foster a cohesive and humane discipline.
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                Role: ND
                Journal
                csp
                Cadernos de Saúde Pública
                Cad. Saúde Pública
                Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro )
                1678-4464
                February 2004
                : 20
                : 1
                : 37-47
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Secretaria de Estado de Saúde do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Brazil
                [2 ] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brasil
                Article
                S0102-311X2004000100017
                d32ca9d5-6ece-40ea-83fe-cfefe756b22c

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                Categories
                Health Policy & Services

                Public health
                Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,Causal Inference,Evaluation,Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida,Inferência Causal,Avaliação

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