Bringing chronic disease epidemiology and infectious disease epidemiology back together

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ID11178596
AutoresBernard C K Choi (0000-0002-0508-355X, Public Health Agency of Canada), Howard Morrison (0000-0001-5592-4540, Public Health Agency of Canada), Tom Wong (0000-0002-4678-1055, Public Health Agency of Canada), Jun Wu (0000-0002-2693-7112, Public Health Agency of Canada), Yong-Ping Yan (Public Health Agency of Canada)
Año2007
Volumen61
Número9
Páginas802.2-802
Fecha de publicación2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738
EditorialBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/jech.2006.057752
PMID17699535
PMCIDPMC2660008
OpenAlexW2065902429
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

When modern epidemiology first took shape, there was only one kind of epidemiology – epidemiology, period. Over time has come specialisation into chronic and infectious disease epidemiology. Does this segregation into chronic and infectious disease epidemiologies benefit public health? Dividing epidemiology into chronic disease and infectious disease “camps” is, in itself, problematic, in that each is based on an incompatible classification system. One classification is based on cause (infectious and non-infectious diseases) while the second is based on effect (chronic and acute diseases).1 Many chronic diseases have

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