Interdisciplinary education to integrate pathology and epidemiology: towards molecular and population-level health science.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, epidemiology, public health, and medical sciences have been increasingly compartmentalized into narrower disciplines. The authors recognize the value of integration of divergent scientific fields in order to create new methods, concepts, paradigms, and knowledge. Herein they describe the recent emergence of molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE), which represents an integration of population and molecular biologic science to gain insights into the etiologies, pathogenesis, evolution, and outcomes of complex multifactorial diseases. Most human diseases, including common cancers (such as breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers, leukemia, and lymphoma) and other chronic diseases (such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, autoimmune diseases

SUBMITTER: Ogino S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3571252 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature