TY - JOUR
T1 - John Snow's legacy
T2 - Epidemiology without borders
AU - Fine, Paul
AU - Victora, Cesar G.
AU - Rothman, Kenneth J.
AU - Moore, Patrick S.
AU - Chang, Yuan
AU - Curtis, Val
AU - Heymann, David L.
AU - Slutkin, Gary
AU - May, Robert M.
AU - Patel, Vikram
AU - Roberts, Ian
AU - Wortley, Richard
AU - Torgerson, Carole
AU - Deaton, Angus
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - This Review provides abstracts from a meeting held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on April 11-12, 2013, to celebrate the legacy of John Snow. They describe conventional and unconventional applications of epidemiological methods to problems ranging from diarrhoeal disease, mental health, cancer, and accident care, to education, poverty, financial networks, crime, and violence. Common themes appear throughout, including recognition of the importance of Snow's example, the philosophical and practical implications of assessment of causality, and an emphasis on the evaluation of preventive, ameliorative, and curative interventions, in a wide variety of medical and societal examples. Almost all self-described epidemiologists nowadays work within the health arena, and this is the focus of most of the societies, journals, and courses that carry the name epidemiology. The range of applications evident in these contributions might encourage some of these institutions to consider broadening their remits. In so doing, they may contribute more directly to, and learn from, non-health-related areas that use the language and methods of epidemiology to address many important problems now facing the world.
AB - This Review provides abstracts from a meeting held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on April 11-12, 2013, to celebrate the legacy of John Snow. They describe conventional and unconventional applications of epidemiological methods to problems ranging from diarrhoeal disease, mental health, cancer, and accident care, to education, poverty, financial networks, crime, and violence. Common themes appear throughout, including recognition of the importance of Snow's example, the philosophical and practical implications of assessment of causality, and an emphasis on the evaluation of preventive, ameliorative, and curative interventions, in a wide variety of medical and societal examples. Almost all self-described epidemiologists nowadays work within the health arena, and this is the focus of most of the societies, journals, and courses that carry the name epidemiology. The range of applications evident in these contributions might encourage some of these institutions to consider broadening their remits. In so doing, they may contribute more directly to, and learn from, non-health-related areas that use the language and methods of epidemiology to address many important problems now facing the world.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62127-8
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62127-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 23582396
AN - SCOPUS:84876190110
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 381
SP - 1302
EP - 1311
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 9874
ER -