Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Ann Epidemiol. 2014 Mar;24(3):171-3. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.11.010. Epub 2014 Jan 3.
Calls by Lilienfeld, Fraser, and others some three decades ago to introduce epidemiology into undergraduate college education remain largely unfulfilled. Consideration of epidemiology as a "liberal art" has also led to exploring possibilities for introducing epidemiology into early education: to high and even middle schools. Adding epidemiology to school curricula should help educate the public to understand science-based evidence concerning the causes and treatments of disease, help inoculate them against a tsunami of biased and fraudulent media messaging, and permit advancing postgraduate education in epidemiology to even higher levels of scholarship.
大约三十年前，Lilienfeld、Fraser 和其他一些人呼吁将流行病学引入本科大学教育，但这一呼吁在很大程度上仍未得到满足。将流行病学视为“文科”也促使人们探索将其引入早期教育的可能性：引入高中甚至中学。将流行病学纳入学校课程应该有助于教育公众了解有关疾病病因和治疗的基于科学的证据，帮助他们抵御大量有偏见和欺诈性的媒体信息，并使流行病学的研究生教育推进到更高的学术水平。
