TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Epidemiology and Public Health A1 - Wallace, Robert B. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Epidemiology is the basic science and most fundamental practice of public health and preventive medicine. We can study health and disease by observing their effects on individuals, by laboratory investigation of experimental animals, and by measuring their distribution in the population. Each of these ways of investigating health and disease is used by the epidemiologist. Epidemiology is therefore the scientific foundation for the practice of public health. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/02 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141963412 ER -