Training in epidemiology and the problems of childhood: a reciprocally profitable marriage

Further training in epidemiology is necessary for all professionals in child health and medicine. The less traditional or new epidemiological approaches are useful, especially in investigating such questions as the causalty and spread of health phenomena, the variation and normalcy of physiological functions, in studying high risk populations and also in the epidemiological study of health. Moreover, the teaching of epidemiology can rely on …