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Joffeetal.EmergingThemesinEpidemiology2012,9:1 /content/9/1/1 EMERGINGTHEMES IN EPIDEMIOLOGY ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE OpenAccess Causaldiagramsinsystemsepidemiology MichaelJoffe1*,ManojGambhir2,MarcChadeau-Hyam1andPaoloVineis1 Abstract Methodsofdiagrammaticmodellinghavebeengreatlydevelopedinthepasttwodecades.Outsidethecontextof infectiousdiseases,systematicuseofdiagramsinepidemiologyhasbeenmainlyconfinedtotheanalysisofa singlelink:thatbetweenadiseaseoutcomeanditsproximaldeterminant(s).Transmittedcauses(causesof causes”)tendnottobesystematicallyanalysed. Theinfectiousdiseaseepidemiologymodelling