 Epidemiology
"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Epidemiology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Epidemiology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epidemiology" by people in Profiles.
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Ganguli M, Albanese E, Seshadri S, Bennett DA, Lyketsos C, Kukull WA, Skoog I, Hendrie HC. Population Neuroscience: Dementia Epidemiology Serving Precision Medicine and Population Health. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2018 Jan-Mar; 32(1):1-9.
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Golden SH, Ferketich A, Boyington J, Dugan S, Garroutte E, Kaufmann PG, Krok J, Kuo A, Ortega AN, Purnell T, Srinivasan S. Transdisciplinary cardiovascular and cancer health disparities training: experiences of the centers for population health and health disparities. Am J Public Health. 2015 Jul; 105 Suppl 3:S395-402.
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Ferlay J, Autier P, Boniol M, Heanue M, Colombet M, Boyle P. Estimates of the cancer incidence and mortality in Europe in 2006. Ann Oncol. 2007 Mar; 18(3):581-92.
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Leopold SS, Warme WJ, Fritz Braunlich E, Shott S. Association between funding source and study outcome in orthopaedic research. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2003 Oct; (415):293-301.
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Weinstein RA. SHEA consensus panel report: a smooth takeoff. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1998 Feb; 19(2):91-3.
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Simmons BP, Parry MF, Williams M, Weinstein RA. The new era of hospital epidemiology: what you need to succeed. Clin Infect Dis. 1996 Mar; 22(3):550-3.
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