Open AccessSeventeen years of intervention epidemiology training at Veyrier-du-Lac, 1984-2000
Author(s) -
P. Malfait,
B Helynck
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.06.03.00217-en
Subject(s) - epidemiology , public health , intervention (counseling) , medicine , family medicine , medical education , environmental health , gerontology , nursing , pathology
Early in the 1980s, those involved in public health held symposiums to assess the training of epidemiologists in France showed inadequacies in the teaching of field epidemiology. Hitherto epidemiology in France had been largely confined to research. Evolution of public health practice, with an increasing demand to base decisions on epidemiological data, made it necessary to develop a network of intervention epidemiologists trained to work with standardised methods.