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)
Ano2007
Volume61
Fascículo9
Páginas802.2-802
Data de publicação2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738
EditoraBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/jech.2006.057752
PMID17699535
PMCIDPMC2660008
OpenAlexW2065902429
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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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