Nature

Epidemiology research in rheumatology—progress and pitfalls

What is 'epidemiology'? Epidemiology is defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in populations. Clinical epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of ...
Nature

Landscape-epidemiological study design to investigate an environmentally based disease

Cost-effective approaches for identifying and enrolling subjects in community-based epidemiological studies face many challenges. Additional challenges arise when a neighborhood scale of analysis is ...
BMJ

Design of a protocol for large-scale epidemiological studies in individual sports: the Swedish Athletics injury study

1 Section of Social Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2 Section of Sports Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgical ...
Acsh.org

Which Health Studies Are Reliable? ACSH Explains Epidemiology

Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...
BMJ

Using accelerometers to measure physical activity in large-scale epidemiological studies: issues and challenges

Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts USA Correspondence to Dr I-Min ...