Editorial: Rebalancing the research agenda

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

Shaping the Research Agenda

Despite the global efforts in research, training, and control over the years, tropical diseases remain a major cause of ill-health in poor populations. An estimated 2.7 billion people living on less than US$2 per day, in both rural and impoverished urban areas of low-income countries, are affected [1,2]. Thirteen neglected tropical diseases alone account for 534,000 deaths each year and the los...

Editorial: The medical humanities teaching and research agenda: a symbiotic relationship.

Editorial: advancing the Mexico agenda for health systems research--from clinical efficacy to population health.

1 Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (NVTG), Wageningen, The Netherlands 1 2 Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Public Health, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 4 ETC Crystal, Leusden, The Netherlands 5 Institute of Health Policy and Management, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The N...