Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Ann Epidemiol. 2013 Oct;23(10):603-7. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.07.016. Epub 2013 Aug 21.
Epidemiology, like all disciplines, exists within and is shaped by a culture that frames its ways of understanding. In the last 60 years epidemiology as a discipline and scientific approach has undergone major transition, but remains challenged by vestiges of the limiting frameworks of our origins which shape the way we approach questions, and even the questions we choose to investigate. A part of the current transformation is a reframing of our perspective and a broadening of our methods to encourage creativity and to encompass new types of evidence and new approaches to investigation and interpretation. Epidemiologists are developing innovative ways to approach increasingly complex problems and becoming more open to multi-disciplinary approaches to solving epidemiologic challenges.
流行病学与所有学科一样，存在于并受其所处文化的影响，这种文化决定了其理解问题的方式。在过去的 60 年中，流行病学作为一门学科和科学方法经历了重大转变，但仍然受到我们起源的限制框架的影响，这些框架塑造了我们提出问题的方式，甚至影响了我们选择研究的问题。当前转变的一部分是重新构建我们的视角，并拓宽我们的方法，以鼓励创造力，并包含新类型的证据和新的调查和解释方法。流行病学家正在开发创新的方法来解决日益复杂的问题，并更加开放地接受多学科方法来解决流行病学挑战。
