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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 chapter by describing a study about the descriptive epidemiology of traffic accidents.
Before presenting basic ideas of epidemiology in a systematic way, we look at some typical epidemiologic settings that provide a first insight.
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Krickeberg, K., Van Trong, P., Thi My Hanh, P. (2019). Some Case Studies and Situation Analyses. In: Epidemiology. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16368-6_3
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