Conceptualising population health: from mechanistic thinking to complexity science
<p>Abstract</p> <p>The mechanistic interpretation of reality can be traced to the influential work by René Descartes and Sir Isaac Newton. Their theories were able to accurately predict most physical phenomena relating to motion, optics and gravity. This paradigm had at least three...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-01-01
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Series: | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology |
Online Access: | http://www.ete-online.com/content/8/1/2 |