Snippets from the past: Is Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of the case-control study?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1687-1690

  Morabia, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Disease transmission; Epidemiologic methods; History of medicine; Ice cream; Scarlet fever

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MILK; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUARANTINE;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE FINDING; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ICE CREAM; MORTALITY; PASTEURIZATION; REVIEW; SCARLET FEVER; SUMMER; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; ICE CREAM; SCARLET FEVER;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ICE CREAM; MICHIGAN; SCARLET FEVER;

ENGLAND; FLINT; MICHIGAN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890772757     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt221     Document Type: Review

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