Dictionary of Epidemiology

The new, completely revised, and updated edition of this classic text --sponsored by the International Epidemiological Association (IEA) and previously edited by John Last-- remains the definitive dictionary in epidemiology worldwide. In fact, with contributions from over 220
epidemiologists and other users of epidemiology from around the globe, it is more than a dictionary: it includes explanations and comments on both core epidemiologic terms and on other scientific terms relevant to all professionals in clinical medicine and public health, as well as to professionals in the other health, life, and social sciences. Anyone seeking clarity on epidemiologic and methodological definitions important to human health will find it here. On the eve of a field trip to a foreign land, a health scientist remarked that if he had to limit his professional library to one volume on epidemiology, this would be the book he would choose.

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CHRONOBIOLOGY The study of biological processes that possess periodicity (e.g., circadian

rhythms, the menstrual cycle).



COMMON GOOD Shared values or benefit deemed to be good, either explicitly or tacitly,

for individuals and for society. Although the definition is critical for public health,

in complex democratic societies it may be diffi cult to achieve consensus on certain

“goods.” For epidemiological and public health practice, elements of the larger public

good include health itself as social value, and the broader value of “assuring conditions

under which people can be healthy.



COMMON VEHICLE SPREAD Transmission of a disease agent (infectious pathogen,

toxic chemical, etc.) from a source that is common to those who acquire the disease.

Common vehicles include air, water, food, injected substances. Legionellosis is an example

of common vehicle spread in air that has passed through air conditioning equipment

contaminated by the causal organism. HIV disease and hepatitis B and C can be spread

among illicit drug users by the common vehicle of contaminated needles and syringes.

Cholera and many other waterborne diseases are spread by the common vehicle of

contaminated water. The principal modes of foodborne common vehicle spread were

sonorously summarized by an anonymous author (probably Sir Andrew Balfour) in

Memoranda on Medical Diseases in Tropical and Subtropical Areas,84 published by the

British War Offi ce in 1914–1918: “. . . careless carriers, contact cases, chiefl y cooks, dirty

drinking water, the dust of dried dejecta and the repulsive regurgitation, dangerous

droppings, and fi lthy feet of faecal-feeding fl ies fouling food.” The work has not lacked

chances to be revised often in later wars