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International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):725-729; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi075
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

History of the IEA

Origins and development of the International Epidemiological Association

Lester Breslow

School of Public Health, UCLA, 650 So. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

E-mail: breslow@ph.ucla.edu

Keywords Epidemiology, International Epidemiological Association, societies, medical history, history, 20th century, international cooperation, social responsibility, public health

Accepted 8 March 2005

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The aim of this paper is to present some reflections on the history and role of the International Epidemiological Association (IEA), on the future of the health field, and to suggest a specific new challenge to epidemiology. The organizational history of the IEA has been well covered in several publications.1–4


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The IEA originated in response to several aspects of the medical and public health situation in the 1950s. Health leaders in the UK, US, and other industrialized nations were recognizing in their countries the 'epidemiologic transition' i.e. the trend towards dominance of non-communicable diseases on the health scene, displacing the communicable diseases that had been most prominent earlier. Responding to that recognition some epidemiologists had begun applying epidemiological methods to find the origins of the newly ascendant diseases, and they were achieving some success, notably in the cases of lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease that had risen to importance . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Based on the presentation at the European Congress of Epidemiology, Porto, Portugal, September 8–11, 2004
 

   International affiliations and early financial support
 

   Regionalization of the IEA
 

   Reflections on the role of the IEA
 

   Comments on the future of public health and epidemiology
 

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