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- Title
Snippets From the Past: The Evolution of Wade Hampton Frost's Epidemiology as Viewed From the American Journal of Hygiene/Epidemiology.
- Authors
Morabia, Alfredo
- Abstract
Wade Hampton Frost, who was a Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University from 1919 to 1938, spurred the development of epidemiologic methods. His 6 publications in the American Journal of Hygiene, which later became the American Journal of Epidemiology, comprise a 1928 Cutter lecture on a theory of epidemics, a survey-based study of tonsillectomy and immunity to Corynebacterium diphtheriae (1931), 2 papers from a longitudinal study of the incidence of minor respiratory diseases (1933 and 1935), an attack rate ratio analysis of the decline of diphtheria in Baltimore (1936), and a 1936 lecture on the age, time, and cohort analysis of tuberculosis mortality. These 6 American Journal of Hygiene /American Journal of Epidemiology papers attest that Frost's personal evolution mirrored that of the emerging “early” epidemiology: The scope of epidemiology extended beyond the study of epidemics of acute infectious diseases, and rigorous comparative study designs and their associated quantitative methods came to light.
- Subjects
MARYLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; PUBLIC health surveillance; AUTHORSHIP; COLLEGE teachers; EPIDEMICS; RESEARCH methodology; HISTORY of medicine; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS; WATER supply; DATA analysis; HISTORY
- Publication
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2013, Vol 178, Issue 7, p1013
- ISSN
0002-9262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aje/kwt199