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We have said in Sect. 1.1 that in the twentieth century the term “epidemiology” took a much wider meaning than before when it concerned only infectious diseases. This semantic transition reflected a transition of the “disease spectrum”; non-infectious ailments and injuries played now an increasing role. In Vietnam, we may indeed very well speak of “epidemics” of, among others, cancer, cardio-vascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and injuries by crashes in road traffic. Hence, we will start the present lesson by describing a study about the descriptive epidemiology of traffic accidents.
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Krickeberg, K., Pham, V.T., Pham, T.M.H. (2012). Some Case Studies and Situation Analyses. In: Epidemiology. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1205-2_3
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