Modern epidemiology?

[Traditional epidemiology, modern epidemiology and public health].

There have been significant developments in epidemiologic methodology during the past century, including changes in basic concepts, methods of data analysis, and methods of exposure measurement. However, the rise of modern epidemiology has been a mixed blessing, and the new paradigm has major shortcomings, both in public health and scientific terms. The changes in the paradigm have not been neu...

Modern epidemiology and its discontents.

The goal of this article is to present a snapshot of an ongoing debate within epidemiology, pitching opposing sides in the struggle to define the path it should follow in the years to come. The debate among epidemiologists in the mid-90s pitted those who defended the idea that epidemiology should necessarily deal with a wide context against those who believed that science and public health are ...

Susser’s Critique of Modern Epidemiology

health and social justice from the recent critiques of modern risk factor epidemiology by Susser and others. The need to move away from a focus at the proximal end of causal pathways and from single risk factors in individuals to looking at populations and the social and environmental contexts in which risk factors arise, points us more towards the social antecedents of diseases and other poor ...

Modern Epidemiology Second Edition Kenneth

Frost revisited: the modern epidemiology of tuberculosis.

At the outset, I would like to express my pleasure and gratitude at the very great honor bestowed upon me by the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. And then, I wish to enter a quick disclaimer, for, to use a hackneyed phrase, no man is an island. During virtually all of my professional life, I have been blessed by challenging assignments, by reliable, capable assist...