Epidemiologists, our patient is society.
The common approach utilized in many epidemiologic studies is to measure and compare characteristics and exposures of afflicted and non-afflicted individuals from the same population. The subject of most contemporary chronic disease epidemiology, therefore, is not epidemics per se, nor their causes,...
| Publicado en: | New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 107 - 110 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2008
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