When starting a new journal, Clinical Epidemiology, it is important to defi ne some key concepts, our mission, and to delineate our discipline. The classic concept of epidemiology is an old discipline with centuries-old roots. It is a discipline of central importance for public health and its impact for clinical medicine has increased over the last few decades. 1 Epidemiology can thus be broadl...

The Korean Society of Epidemiology publishes a scholarly journal titled 'Korean Journal of Epidemiology', which announces and discusses the results of epidemiological studies from the past 30 yr. Since its first publication in 1979, the journal has contributed to the advancement of epidemiology as well as the prevention and control of disease, and the promotion of health in Korea.In 2009, the e...

Introduction: Since the 1950s, air travel has grown exponentially. In 2018, the number of international air passengers was estimated at 4.1 billion. Air travel exposes the passenger to a number of constraints (like physical constraints, stress) that can be correlated and lead to an inflight medical event, especially for passengers with chronic conditions or fragile health.<br /...

In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to adjust educational programs at medical universities for in-depth study epidemiology and infection prevention in such disciplines as “epidemiology hygiene”, which are necessary training qualified preventive doctors, who currently high demand various institutions industrial

Clinical epidemiology versus public health epidemiology Epidemiology is growing, and so is the need for developing subspecialties. One subspecialty which has achieved a certain prominence is clinical epidemiology. The term had already been coined in 1938,1 and although it has many different interpretations,2 the growing number of textbooks providing an introduction to the area shows that it has...

Although research into social and behavioural determinants of health and illness was conducted throughout the 20th century, it has become more common since the 1980s. Because of this, the term 'social epidemiology' is increasingly encountered in the biomedical literature. Recent commentaries by Kaufman and Cooper 1,2 and Muntaner 3 on causal explanations in social epidemiology, although of inte...