Context Epidemiology is a discipline which has evolved with the changes taking place in
society and the emergence of new diseases and new discipline related to epidemiology …

Methods, just as diseases or scientists, have their own history. It is important for scientists to
be aware of the genesis of the methods they use and of the context in which they were …

Introdução Trabalhos que abordem a importância da utilização dos Modelos Teóricos nas
pesquisas são escassos, bem como instruções para sua elaboração. Objetivo Apresentar …

So wrote Professor Jeremiah Morris (hereafter, simply Jerry) near the end of a long and
remarkably productive life that exemplified his commitment to intellectual and physical …

The human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (hRSV) is the leading cause of severe acute lower
respiratory tract infections (ALRTIs) in humans at all ages and is the main cause of …

Part 1 of Report 4 is focused on the development and modifications of causal criteria after
AB Hill (1965). Criteria from B. MacMahon et al.(1970–1996), regarded as the first textbook …

Report 3 is devoted to the history, nature, and limitations of the epidemiological criteria for
causality (“Hill's criteria”). Based on material from the original publications of leading …

Background Previous studies have shown that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Uganda
family, a sub-lineage of the MTB Lineage 4, is the main cause of tuberculosis (TB) in …

This paper focuses on the relatively late emergence of psychiatric epidemiology as an
international discipline, through local-global exchanges during the first 15 years of the World …

BACKGROUND: Disability is a worldwide public health priority. A shift from a biomedical
perspective of dysfunction to a broader social understanding of disability has been …