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.
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Authors | Alfredo Morabia |
Journal | American journal of epidemiology
(Am J Epidemiol)
Vol. 178
Issue 7
Pg. 1013-9
(Oct 01 2013)
ISSN: 1476-6256 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 24022889
(Publication Type: Biography, Historical Article, Portrait, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
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Topics |
- Baltimore
- Communicable Diseases
(epidemiology, etiology, history)
- Epidemics
(history)
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Epidemiology
(history)
- History, 20th Century
- Humans
- Hygiene
(history)
- United States
(epidemiology)
- United States Public Health Service
(history)
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