The ability to conduct weight-of-evidence assessments to inform the evaluation of potential environmental neurotoxicants is limited by lack of comparability of study methods, data analysis, and reporting. There is a need to establish consensus guidelines for conducting, analyzing, and reporting neurodevelopmental environmental epidemiologic studies, while recognizing that consistency is likewis...

Hazard identification is a major scientific challenge, notably for environmental epidemiology, and is often surrounded, as the recent case of glyphosate shows, by debate arising in the first place by the inherently problematic nature of many components of the identification process. Particularly relevant in this respect are components less amenable to logical or mathematical formalization and e...

Ecological studies arise within many different disciplines. This chapter describes common approaches to ecological inference in an environmental epidemiology setting, and compares these with traditional approaches in political science and sociology. These approaches vary considerably, both in their use of terminology and notation, and in the relative importance of the various issues that make e...

OBJECTIVES In South Korea, health insurance data are used as material for the health insurance of national whole subject. In general, health insurance data could be useful for estimating prevalence or incidence rate that is representative of the actual value in a population. The purpose of this study was to apply the concept of episode of care (EoC) in the utilization of health insurance data i...

Molecular epidemiology in cancer research grew from the field of chemical carcinogenesis and the use biomarkers for environmental exposures, with incorporation of principles from early pharmacogenetics. Over the years, molecular epidemiology has become extremely complex, with studies evaluating associations between cancer risk and prognosis and numerous markers of susceptibility, exposure and e...

The potentials for error in planning, conducting, reporting, and utilizing epidemiologic results can be considered in terms of the traditional 7 deadly sins. To counter these sins, epidemiologic virtues should be inspired by the precautionary principle. The remedies emphasize acknowledgment and exploration of the impact of uncertainties, weight-of-the-evidence assessments that consider what cou...

1 Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Municipal Institute of Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain. 2 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. 3 Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical and Environmental Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain. 4 Department of Preventive M...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) an infectious caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first identified in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has eventually spread to size pandemic. This article points outs facts its epidemiology management a thoughtful, brief, palatable, revealing innovative way. also discusses few innovations which could ma...