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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(6):1159-1160; doi:10.1093/ije/dym241
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Editor'S Choice

Uses of epidemiology, ways of living and dying

Shah Ebrahim

E-mail: shah.ebrahim@lshtm.ac.uk

Accepted 29 October 2007

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If you only read one thing in this issue, make it Jerry Morris's 1955 British Medical Journal paper ‘Uses of Epidemiology’ reprinted in this issue 1. But before you start, try writing down as many uses of epidemiology as you can think of. I certainly could not come up with the seven uses that Morris describes, and I would expect you all to put ‘discovering causes of disease’ at the top, or at least near the top, of your lists. Morris puts it last under an appropriately modest heading . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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