Health Science

Health care in the United States, historically focused on encounter-based care and treating illness as it arises rather than preventing it, is now undergoing a sweeping transformation toward a more population health based approach. This transformation is happening via a series of changes in reimbursement. Among these changes are multiple eras of managed care and

The most centrally relevant, and hence the most important, concept here obviously is that of epidemiology. To me, epidemiology has a singular meaning: it is  (the practice of) community medicine (Miettinen 2011; Miettinen and Karp 2012), although to most teachers of the subject the concept of epidemiology has ‘study’ as its proximate genus. Moreover, the

The identification of the causal role of tobacco smoking in a variety of diseases is a prime success of the new, post-Second World War epidemiology The historical sketch (see ‘The new epidemiology’) contains an outline that should be fleshed out using material from the quoted sources. The focus can be on the controversy concerning the

‘Know yourself ’: this Socratic maxim expresses the rationale for learning the history of epidemiology. Self-knowledge, as derived from a view of the development in time of epidemiology, promotes a positively critical attitude towards the discipline and its practice by fostering an appreciation of ◆ The common features of all branches of epidemiology as a

The body is organized from its smallest element, the cell, to the collection of systems, with all its interrelated parts. Cells The entire body is made of cells that vary in size, shape, and function, but all cells have one thing in common: They need food, water, and oxygen to live and function. Cells (Figure)