Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Nov 3;192(11):1842-1844. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwac158.
Historically, the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) has played an important role in the development of social epidemiology as a field. To mark the centennial of the Journal, we invited commentaries from 3 sets of authors in which we asked them to reflect on the role of the AJE in advancing our understanding of the social determinants of population health and health disparities. Drs. Lisa Berkman, Mauricio Avendano, and Emilie Courtin discuss the promises and pitfalls of using experimental data (from both randomized trials and natural policy experiments) to interrogate the causal connection between social determinants and population health outcomes. Drs. Julie Palmer, Yvette Crozier, and Lynn Rosenberg look back on the first 25 years of the Black Women's Health Study and the contributions of that study to our understanding of racial disparities in health. Drs. Luisa Borrell and Natalie Crawford review the AJE's contributions to the definition and use of race and ethnicity in epidemiologic research and make recommendations for strengthening diversity and inclusion in the profession. A common thread that emerges across the invited essays is the AJE's commitment to publishing articles that engage in critical self-reflection of the discipline.
从历史上看，《美国流行病学杂志》（AJE）在社会流行病学领域的发展中发挥了重要作用。为了纪念该杂志创刊 100 周年，我们邀请了三组作者撰写评论，要求他们反思 AJE 在增进我们对人口健康和健康差异的社会决定因素的理解方面所发挥的作用。Lisa Berkman、Mauricio Avendano 和 Emilie Courtin 博士讨论了使用实验数据（包括随机试验和自然政策试验）来探究社会决定因素与人口健康结果之间的因果关系的前景和陷阱。Julie Palmer、Yvette Crozier 和 Lynn Rosenberg 博士回顾了《黑人妇女健康研究》的头 25 年以及该研究对我们理解健康方面的种族差异的贡献。Luisa Borrell 和 Natalie Crawford 博士回顾了 AJE 在流行病学研究中对种族和族裔的定义和使用的贡献，并就加强该专业的多样性和包容性提出了建议。在这些特邀文章中，有一个共同的主题，即 AJE 致力于发表能够对学科进行批判性自我反思的文章。
