Pasker-de Jong P C
Department of Epidemiology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 1997 Dec;75(1):97-8. doi: 10.1016/s0301-2115(97)00201-7.
This paper delineates in short the way in which epidemiology and obstetrics and gynaecology could profit from each other's expertise and why. Epidemiology addresses the rates of occurrence in illnesses and their outcomes in relation to potential determinants of these in any realm of medicine. Obstetrics and gynaecology concern themselves with the female reproductive system, notably. Epidemiologic methods are essential to valid research, and obstetrics and gynaecology are essential to valid inference of epidemiologic research.
本文简要阐述了流行病学与妇产科学如何相互借鉴专业知识以及原因。流行病学研究疾病的发生率及其与医学各领域潜在决定因素相关的结果。妇产科学主要关注女性生殖系统。流行病学方法对于有效研究至关重要，而妇产科学对于流行病学研究的有效推断至关重要。
