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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1146-1155
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Celebration

The uses of 'Uses of Epidemiology'

George Davey Smith

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK. E-mail: zetkin@bristol.ac.uk

In 1944 the Association for Education in Citizenship published a pamphlet entitled ‘Health' by Major Jerry Morris1 (of the Royal Army Medical Corps), as one of a series of Handbooks for Discussion Groups. The preface to the pamphlets in this series said that they were intended to be used by discussion circles concerned with the social, economic and political problems that arose from the Second World War. The central problem the pamphlet dealt with was that of health as a social function: statistics on the current state of ill-health in Britain were presented (against the background of considerable improvement from the mid-19th century), the problem of socioeconomic differentials in health outlined and arguments in favour of a universal tax-funded health service presented. By way of a conclusion readers were exhorted to involve themselves in understanding—and through this improving—the health of the communities in which they lived (Box 1).


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Working of health services

Prescient ideas

Population approach
Large enough trials
Individual and group risks
In search of causes

Lifecourse epidemiology
Multiple causality and general susceptibility
Peptic ulcer—travelling imaginatively?
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References


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