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"If It Isn't Ultimately Aimed at Policy, It's Not Worth Doing": Interview of George W. Comstock by Alfredo Morabia ⬇️

scientific article published on March 10, 2013

#NPHW, A Time of Global Assessment.

scientific article

'Defying providence': a salutary new look at the history of smallpox

scientific article published in September 2013

120 000 Nurses Who Shook Public Health

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

2-steps per second is the healthy cadence

article by Alfredo Morabia & Michael C. Costanza published 1 September 2011 in Preventive Medicine

A Latin-American perspective regarding the past, present and future of epidemiology

scientific article published on September 2013

A tale of two themes: implementing HPV prevention and assessing stress in the workplace

scientific article published in May 2009

AJPH Dossier on the Erasure of the Sexual Orientation Question From the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

AJPH Podcasts: Come and Listen!

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

AJPH at the APHA Annual Conference 2019: Reparations, Publishing, and Vaccines

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

AJPH's First Year.

scientific article published in January 2017

APHA Voices From the Nurses' Health Study

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Ability of low-dose helical CT to distinguish between benign and malignant noncalcified lung nodules.

scientific article

Achieving energy balance at the population level through increases in physical activity

scientific article published on 31 January 2007

Active and passive smoking in breast cancer

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Active encouragement of physical activity during school recess

scientific article published in April 2009

After the Supreme Court Decision Relative to the Citizen Question in the Census: What Are the Options?

Ages at initiation of cigarette smoking and quit attempts among women: a generation effect

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Aging medicine: Not evidence-based medicine yet ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Air pollution and activity during transportation by car, subway, and walking

scientific article

All along the CHD/CVD risk watchtower

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

An assessment of non-randomized medical treatment of long-term schizophrenia relapse using bivariate binary-response transition models

scientific article

Anti-Tobacco Propaganda: Soviet Union Versus Nazi Germany

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

Asbestos, Asbestosis, Smoking, and Lung Cancer. New Findings from the North American Insulator Cohort ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2013

Assessing efficacy of chronic therapy when disease is characterized by frequent relapses: the example of schizophrenia

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Association between lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene and blood lipids: a common variant for a common trait?

scientific article published in May 2003

Association of extreme blood lipid profile phenotypic variation with 11 reverse cholesterol transport genes and 10 non-genetic cardiovascular disease risk factors

scientific article published on 9 September 2003

Association of physical activity intensity levels with overweight and obesity in a population-based sample of adults

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Biologic and epigenetic impact of commuting to work by car or using public transportation: A case–control study ⬇️

scientific article published on January 31, 2012

Body and soul

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Breast cancer, passive and active cigarette smoking and N-acetyltransferase 2 genotype

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Bridging health sciences and community health ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

CAM therapy and vaccine use by U.S. adults: not simply related

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Cardiovascular disease hospitalizations in relation to exposure to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster and posttraumatic stress disorder

journal article published in 2013

Carry that Weight

scientific article published in January 2009

Claude Bernard was a 19th century proponent of medicine based on evidence

scientific article

Claude Bernard, statistics and comparative trials

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Come on, come on, do the loco-motion

scientific article published on 08 December 2007

Commentary: A structural approach to Berkson's fallacy and a guide to a history of opinions about it.

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

Community Water Fluoridation: Open Discussions Strengthen Public Health

scientific article published on 01 February 2016

Comparison of women's breast cancer risk factors in Geneva, Switzerland and Shanghai, China ⬇️

scientific article published on October 14, 2010

Concordant association of lipid gene variation with a combined HDL/LDL-cholesterol phenotype in two European populations

scientific article published on 12 June 2006

Consistency between cross-sectional and longitudinal SNP: blood lipid associations

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Converging prevalences of obesity across educational groups in Switzerland

scientific article published in November 2006

Could Chinese herbal medicine be nephrotoxic? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Culture(s) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Levels of Global Genomic DNA Methylation in a Cancer-Free Population ⬇️

scientific article published on April 27, 2011

Disabled inside

scientific article

Does anyone care about what children eat? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Does walking 15 minutes per day keep the obesity epidemic away? Simulation of the efficacy of a populationwide campaign

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Don't step on our 2007 citation footprint (CF)

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Editorial: Epidemiology in History--Three Years Later

scientific article

Editorial: Note About Inaccurate Results Published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and the American Journal of Public Health

scientific article published on March 2017

Editorial: Note About Inaccurate Results Published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and the American Journal of Public Health.

scientific article

Edward Jenner's 1798 report of challenge experiments demonstrating the protective effects of cowpox against smallpox

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

El hito de 10 000 artículos

Engaging parents and children in designing child health research

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Epidemiologic Interactions, Complexity, and the Lonesome Death of Max von Pettenkofer

scientific article

Epidemiological causality.

scientific article

Epidemiology and public health in 1906 England: Arthur Newsholme's methodological innovation to study breastfeeding and fatal diarrhea

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Epidemiology's 350th Anniversary: 1662-2012.

scientific article

Ethics of Ignorance: Lessons From the Epidemiological Assessment of the Bovine Spongioform Encephalopathy ("Mad Cow Disease") Epidemic

scholarly article by Alfredo Morabia et al published 1998 in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Evidence-based gun control

scientific article published in October 2012

Evolution of epidemiologic methods and concepts in selected textbooks of the 20th century

scientific article published on January 2004

Expanding the Book and Media Section to Novels and Children’s Books

Experimental approach to measuring functional food consumption for risk factor surveillance.

scientific article published on 7 March 2008

Facets of the Sixties Still Relevant for Public Health

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Faith-Based Organizations and Public Health: Another Facet of the Public Health Dialogue

article

Ferrara 1855: cholera without epidemiology

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Fighting Independent Risk Assessment of Talc and Glyphosate: Whose Benefit Is It Anyway?

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Financial incentives and health: Revealing the submerged side of the iceberg ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

First Evidence of a Polygenic Susceptibility to Pain in a Pediatric Cohort ⬇️

scientific article published on December 7, 2012

Gender differentials in the evolution of cigarette smoking habits in a general European adult population from 1993-2003.

scientific article published on 12 May 2006

Genetic polymorphisms in alcohol metabolism, alcohol intake and the risk of stomach cancer in Warsaw, Poland

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Genetic polymorphisms in folate metabolism and the risk of stomach cancer

scientific article published in January 2007

Ground zero beyond Framingham ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Handwashing against hospitalization for influenza: Time for PHIR? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Has epidemiology become infatuated with methods? A historical perspective on the place of methods during the classical (1945-1965) phase of epidemiology

scientific article

Health care and illegality: a survey of undocumented pregnant immigrants in Geneva

scientific article

Heart disease among adults exposed to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster: results from the World Trade Center Health Registry

journal article published in 2011

Historical reflections on the book Epidemiologia & Saúde: Fundamentos, Métodos, Aplicações

scientific article published on June 2013

History of the modern epidemiological concept of confounding

scientific article published on 9 August 2010

How do you sleep?

scientific article published in December 2009

Hume, Mill, Hill, and the sui generis epidemiologic approach to causal inference.

scientific article

Imbalanced diet vs. sedentary lifestyle: the burden of history

scientific article published in October 2009

Important increase of invasive lobular breast cancer incidence in Geneva, Switzerland

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

In a quasi-simultaneous assessment, imprecise cholesterol monitoring and screening tests were improved

scientific article published in August 2005

In defense of Pierre Louis who pioneered the epidemiological approach to good medicine

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Incidence and risk factors of perioperative respiratory adverse events in children undergoing elective surgery

scientific article published in March 2004

Influenza epidemics: do we really want more protection?

scientific article published in June 2011

Influenza vaccine coverage: resistance and alternatives

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Instant karma

scientific article published on 11 October 2007

Interaction - Epidemiology's Brinkmanship

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Invited commentary: do-it-yourself modern epidemiology--at last!

scientific article

Invited reply to "PTSD is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease."

publication published in 2012

Is PM a T2 (late translational) research journal?

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Is age at menopause increasing across Europe? Results on age at menopause and determinants from two population-based studies

Is bike-sharing unegalitarian? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Is epidemiology nothing but politics at a different level?

scientific article published in March 2009

It takes a train to knock down global warming and obesity ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

JUMBO, MRFIT, and the Making of Public Health Epidemiology

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Janet Lane-Claypon

scientific article published in May 2007

Janet Lane-Claypon--interphase epitome

scientific article published in July 2010

Joseph Goldberger's research on the prevention of pellagra

scientific article published in November 2008

Let's not have to hear it through the grapevine

scientific article published in January 2009

Lifestyle interventions: from individuals to communities

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Long Tall Sallis: having some fun being physically active

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Longitudinal study of body composition changes associated with weight change and physical activity

scientific article published on 4 October 2006

Low prevalence of atrial fibrillation in asymptomatic adults in Geneva, Switzerland.

scientific article

Low-fat diets and disease prevention: what's new, what else to do?

scientific article published on 20 March 2006

Making Public Health History: 1969-2019

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Mervyn Susser and the logic of scientific discovery

scientific article published in November 2014

Mervyn Susser, the last of the three American classical epidemiology tenors

scientific article

Morabia Responds

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

Morabia Responds.

scientific article

Mortality after a first episode of status epilepticus in the United States and Europe

scientific article

Most likely southern women go one way (and northern women'll go theirs)

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Multiple health behavior change interventions: tell us what you see

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Multiple health behavior change research: en avant, March!

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

No physical activity x CETP 1b.-629 interaction effects on lipid profile

scientific article published on July 2003

Note From the Editor-in-Chief: Who Wants to Exclude Older LGBT Persons From Public Health Surveillance?

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Nutritional assessment: lean body mass depletion at hospital admission is associated with an increased length of stay

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Obesity, TV commercials, passive commuting, and smoking ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Obesity: Two interesting ideas ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

On the influence of a raffle upon responses to an urban transportation survey in New York City

scientific article published on January 2009

On the way to school (what a lot of research to be done).

scientific article published in June 2009

Optimal step length EM algorithm (OSLEM) for the estimation of haplotype frequency and its application in lipoprotein lipase genotyping

scientific article

Ottawa Statement from the Sparking Solutions Summit on Population Health Intervention Research

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Oysters and enteric fever aetiology in 1900 England

scientific article published in February 2005

Pandemics and methodological developments in epidemiology history

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Pedometers for all! ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Perspectives on the Future of Epidemiology: a Framework for Training

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Philosophy and epidemiology ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Physical activity and global genomic DNA methylation in a cancer-free population ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Physical activity may modulate effects of ApoE genotype on lipid profile

scientific article published in January 2002

Physical activity or academic achievement? Both!

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the evaluation of bloodletting

scientific article

Piling up healthy behaviors ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Population Health Intervention Research (PHIR): should we fear the "P"?

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Population-based study of SR-BI genetic variation and lipid profile.

scientific article

Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular diseases: a cohort study of men and women involved in cleaning the debris of the World Trade Center complex

journal article published in 2018

Potential Health Impact of Switching From Car to Public Transportation When Commuting to Work ⬇️

scientific article published on October 21, 2010

Preparing and Rebuilding After Natural Disasters: A New Public Health Normal!

scientific article published in January 2018

Prescription of hypnotics and tranquilisers at the Geneva prison's outpatient service in comparison to an urban outpatient medical service

scientific article published on January 2002

Primary care physicians surveyed in this study mistakenly interpreted improved survival and increased detection with screening as evidence that screening saves lives ⬇️

scientific article published on July 7, 2012

Quality of life of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) patients: how good are physicians in assessing DNR patients' quality of life?

scientific article published in November 2002

Quality, originality, and significance of the 1939 “Tobacco consumption and lung carcinoma” article by Mueller, including translation of a section of the paper ⬇️

scientific article published on May 24, 2012

Re: "The emergence of translational epidemiology: from scientific discovery to population health impact"

scientific article published on 08 February 2011

Re: "do we need genomic research for the prevention of common diseases with environmental causes?"

scientific article published on 24 August 2005

Re: Extended lung cancer incidence follow-up in the Mayo Lung Project and overdiagnosis

scientific article published in June 2007

Re: Smoking and lung cancer: recent evidence and a discussion of some questions

scientific article published on 02 December 2009

Recent reversal of trends in hormone therapy use in a European population

scientific article published in January 2006

Relative contributions of genes, environment, and interactions to blood lipid concentrations in a general adult population

scientific article published in April 2005

Remarkable change in age-specific breast cancer incidence in the Swiss canton of Geneva and its possible relation with the use of hormone replacement therapy

scientific article published on 22 March 2006

Reply: To PMID 23590275.

scientific article

Save epidemiology's footprints!: the case of Harvard epidemiology

scientific article published on March 2015

Sedentarism affects body fat mass index and fat-free mass index in adults aged 18 to 98 years

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Sexual Orientation Question Kept in NSOAAP: "Government at Its Best"

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Should an epidemiologist also have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

scientific article published in March 2009

Should the history of epidemiology be taught in epidemiology training programs?

scientific article published in January 2015

Significant differences in global genomic DNA methylation by gender and race/ethnicity in peripheral blood ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Slow down, youth's food's too fast

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Small, dense lipoprotein particles and reduced paraoxonase-1 in patients with the metabolic syndrome

scientific article

Smoking (active and passive) and breast cancer: epidemiologic evidence up to June 2001.

scientific article

Snippets From the Past: Imaginative Designs--Separating Hereditary From Environmental Effects in pre-DNA Times

scientific article

Snippets from the past: cohort analysis of disease rates-another piece in a seemingly still incomplete puzzle

scientific article

Snippets from the past: is Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of the case-control study?

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2013)

Snippets from the past: the evolution of Wade Hampton Frost's epidemiology as viewed from the American Journal of Hygiene/Epidemiology

scientific article

Sodas, high fructose corn syrup, and obesity: Let's focus on the right target

scientific article published in July 2010

Spectrum bias: a quantitative and graphical analysis of the variability of medical diagnostic test performance

scientific article (publication date: 15 January 2004)

Spirit of 1848

scientific article published on 01 April 2017

Standin' on the dock of the bay, waistin' ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Starting to smoke too easily, starting to smoke too young

scientific article published in September 2008

Strobe for the international comparison of health determinants

scientific article

Symptoms and clinical and radiological signs predicting the presence of pathogenic bacteria in acute rhinosinusitis

scientific article

Talkin' 'bout synthetic generation

scientific article published in August 2006

Tea, coffee, and sweet tooth: towards a Japanese paradox

scientific article published in April 2010

Teachers in Arms? A Special Section of AJPH

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

The 10 000 Paper Benchmark

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

The 10 000 Paper Benchmark

The Importance of Being a Consequential Public Health Journal

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

The James Lind Library: explaining and illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments

scientific article (publication date: September 2008)

The New "Snippets From the Past" and a New Section About "Epidemiology in History" ⬇️

scientific article published on February 27, 2013

The Obama Family's Historic Contribution to Public Health

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

The Public Health Dialogue

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

The Public Health Dialogue, 2020

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The Refugee Crisis in the Middle East and Public Health

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

The Thompson-McFadden Commission and Joseph Goldberger: contrasting 2 historical investigations of pellagra in cotton mill villages in South Carolina

scientific article

The WHO report "Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment" and us

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

The controversial controversy of a passionate controversialist

scientific article published in December 2002

The dark side of TV screens ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

The development of a questionnaire to assess past year physical activity in a multi-ethnic/racial urban population.

scientific article published on January 2002

The making of an epidemiological theory of bias and confounding

scientific article published in January 2002

The obesity epidemic as harbinger of a metabolic disorder epidemic: trends in overweight, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes treatment in Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2003

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

The pioneering use of a questionnaire to investigate a food borne disease outbreak in early 20th century Britain

scientific article

Time machines: a promising attempt to reduce TV watching

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Trends in citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature

scientific article published in 2013

Trends in risk factors for lifestyle-related diseases by socioeconomic position in Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2000: health inequalities persist

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Trends in risk factors for the major "lifestyle-related diseases" in Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2000.

scientific article published on August 2003

Until the lab takes it away from epidemiology

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

Unveiling the Black Panther Party Legacy to Public Health.

scientific article

Using percentiles to summarise data instead of means and standard deviations

scientific article

Using the numerical method in 1836, James Jackson bridged French therapeutic epistemology and American medical pragmatism.

scientific article

Vaccines or vitamins: alternative medicines?

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Vitamin D as in different

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

WEBCAM: Western evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

What is this thing called preventive medicine (II)?

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

What is this thing called preventive medicine (III)?

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

What is this thing called preventive medicine?

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

When Public Health Gets Shut Down, All Americans Suffer, and the Most Vulnerable Are First

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White blood cell global methylation and IL-6 promoter methylation in association with diet and lifestyle risk factors in a cancer-free population

scientific article

Why aren't We More Ahead? The Risk of Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease from Eating Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy-Infected Foods: Still Undetermined

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Wilhelm Weinberg's 1913 Large Retrospective Cohort Study: a rediscovery

scientific article published on 4 January 2007

Work organization: the neglected child of (social) epidemiology

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Worldwide variability in physical inactivity a 51-country survey

scientific article

Yellow submarine

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

‘Lung cancer and tobacco consumption’: technical evaluation of the 1943 paper by Schairer and Schoeniger published in Nazi Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on November 15, 2012

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