Causality
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.
Year introduced: 1990
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Tree Number(s): N05.715.350.200, N06.850.490.625
MeSH Unique ID: D015984
Entry Terms:
- Causalities
- Enabling Factors
- Enabling Factor
- Factor, Enabling
- Factors, Enabling
- Multifactorial Causality
- Causalities, Multifactorial
- Causality, Multifactorial
- Multifactorial Causalities
- Multiple Causation
- Causation, Multiple
- Causations, Multiple
- Multiple Causations
- Predisposing Factors
- Factor, Predisposing
- Factors, Predisposing
- Predisposing Factor
- Reinforcing Factors
- Factor, Reinforcing
- Factors, Reinforcing
- Reinforcing Factor
- Causation
- Causations
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