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In your field of work, what would you say is the most unique or obscure term?
The most common and obscure or difficult word could be rate, which in science, medicine, and other fields is used with somewhat various connotations and in rather varied settings. It presents a good example of a polysemic term. More than 60 definitions of rate and related concepts (e.g., attributable rate, infection rate, and hazard rate) are included in the present edition of the dictionary Some of these definitions have evolved not only during the past thirty years but also in several of the six dictionary versions since 1983.
In your field of expertise, what do you believe to be the most often held misunderstanding?
Perhaps while practically everyone in contact with science has long established (and accepted) that epidemiology examines diseases, maybe it simply studies epidemic of diseases.
analyzes in designated populations the incidence and distribution of any kind of health-related events, states, and processes including the study of the “determinants” (biological, clinical, sanitary, sociocultural, political) that impact such processes;
b) it uses this kind of information to address pertinent issues of human health.
Many of us believe that modern inflexible “insular” perspectives of disciplines do not make much sense, either scientifically or socially; by comparison, it is amazing how epidemiology and many other health, life, and social sciences connect and work with each other. Thanks to the porousness and plasticity of the disciplines, vast areas of the modern scientific world are open and interconnected – far more creative, relevant, efficient, and intriguing.
Fortunately, today’s strong epidemiological roots, dimensions, and features find use both “within” and “outside” epidemiology. In the later decades of the last century, a beneficial blurring of the lines of epidemiological research techniques took place; e.g., population thinking and group comparison were included into clinical and public health research. Furthermore important is the extension of this effect into other study domains (including “omics” disciplines). This kind of increase of impact is not exactly what clinical epidemiology and, later, evidence-based medicine (and presently evidence-based health care) accomplished. In clinical medicine, the nature of the hypotheses under discussion is often somewhat different than in, example, molecular biology or proteomics. Today epidemiological thinking and reasoning continues to produce new approaches, research designs, strategies of analysis, and ways to assess causality for such (micro)biological, clinical, and (macro)social disciplines largely because biotechnologies generate and drive different types and amounts of information and research. For other reasons as well.
Which historical figure from your topic would you most want invited to a dinner party?
You would ask him or her what?
Though some of us know she will be, she is not yet part of history. She is that young student or professional around you who is so excellent at integrating science and human impact, theoretical knowledge and practice, biological mechanisms and the clinical, social, and environmental dimensions of health, methodological rigour and creativity and relevance, moral courage, elegance, compassion, and political boldness… She also enjoys herself rather a lot on top of all of that. Grinning, I would ask her: “how come you have so much fun?”
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