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Epidemiologic Tools for Today and Tomorrow
Author(s) -
HARTGE PATRICIA
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02757.x
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , population , data science , simple (philosophy) , scale (ratio) , engineering ethics , computer science , sociology , social science , geography , engineering , demography , epistemology , philosophy , cartography
A bstract : As the premier population sciences, epidemiology and demography face common challenges as the U.S. population ages, as the genomic revolution unfolds, and as computing power changes the scale of analysis by several orders of magnitude. Each discipline does need to develop new tools to address the changing research questions, and the best strategy for success includes increased collaboration between the disciplines. The paradigms of each discipline still offer important insights into the problems of both disciplines, so cross‐training would be a simple step to begin enlarging the tool box for population science.