Iijima Wataru, Inoue Hiroki, Ichikawa Tomoo
Department of History, College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-8366, Japan.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kojimachi Business Center Building, 5-3-1 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan.
Trop Med Health. 2021 Jan 27;49(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s41182-020-00296-7.
The AIDH is a project as a historical epidemiology. The AIDH aims to collect, maintain, and manage past epidemiological materials and to offer these materials to persons who are interested in the history and in the fields of tropical medicine and global health. In this paper, we introduce our purpose and activities and show a hypothesis about lymphatic filariasis with Brugia malayi in Japan as a case of historical epidemiology. We hope to build fruitful ties between historians and scholars of tropical medicine and global health workers through an interdisciplinary approach to the history of control of infectious diseases.
亚洲医学史数据库(AIDH)是一个历史流行病学项目。AIDH旨在收集、保存和管理过去的流行病学资料,并将这些资料提供给对热带医学和全球健康领域历史感兴趣的人士。在本文中,我们介绍了我们的目的和活动,并以日本马来布鲁线虫引起的淋巴丝虫病为例,展示了一个关于历史流行病学的假设。我们希望通过对传染病控制史的跨学科研究方法,在历史学家、热带医学学者和全球卫生工作者之间建立富有成效的联系。