"Epidemiology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Field of medicine concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.
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D004813
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.720.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epidemiology" by people in Profiles.
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Medcalf E, Huang JY, Arah OA, Harhay MO, Leeder SR, Bell KJL. A survey of the use and impact of International Journal of Epidemiology's Education Corner. Int J Epidemiol. 2022 10 13; 51(5):1687-1690.
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Levine RS, Kilbourne BA, Rust GS, Langston MA, Husaini BA, Gittner LS, Sanderson M, Hennekens CH. Social determinants and the classification of disease: descriptive epidemiology of selected socially mediated disease constellations. PLoS One. 2014; 9(11):e110271.
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Kamangar F. Causality in epidemiology. Arch Iran Med. 2012 Oct; 15(10):641-7.
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Akers TA, Lanier MM. "Epidemiological criminology": coming full circle. Am J Public Health. 2009 Mar; 99(3):397-402.
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Staniswalis JG. Incorporating marginal covariate information in a nonparametric regression model for a sample of R x C tables. Biometrics. 2008 Dec; 64(4):1054-61.
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Su?rez E, Sariol CA, Burguete A, Mclachlan G. A tutorial in genetic epidemiology and some considerations in statistical modeling. P R Health Sci J. 2007 Dec; 26(4):401-21.
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Whaley AL. Ethnicity/race, ethics, and epidemiology. J Natl Med Assoc. 2003 Aug; 95(8):736-42.
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Mawson AR. On not taking the world as you find it-epidemiology in its place. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 Jan; 55(1):1-4.