IJE Advance Access originally published online on November 24, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1379-1383; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl249
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The eco- in eco-epidemiology
1 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10032 USA.
2 Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Chief of Psychiatric Research, Epidemiology of Brain Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10032 USA.
* Corresponding author. E-mail: dm2025@columbia.edu
Accepted 21 October 2006
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In 1996, Susser and Susser proposed breaking the constraints of the risk factor paradigm. They envisioned for the future an ‘eco-epidemiology’ that would explicitly recognize multilevel causation and emphasize the ties that bind epidemiology to public health.1–3 Others also advocated for a transition in epidemiology and articulated various perspectives on what it should be.4–8 Since then, these perspectives have begun to merge into a common vision of a broad and integrative epidemiology, in which studies designed to identify risk factors would be balanced by studies designed to answer other questions equally vital to public health. These would include studies of trajectories of health and disease over the life course, the effects of social contexts broad and narrow, the spread of communicable diseases and behaviours through populations, genetic causes, and historical trends. By fully incorporating these elements, epidemiology would be rooted in the investigation of the pathways by which biological and
Transitions in epidemiological thinking
The conceptual origins of eco-epidemiology
The risk factor storm and the shoring of ecology
Turning tides
Other developments
New depths
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