…When bacteriology was mainstream, epidemiology progressed with a focus on pathogenic bacteria as a factor, but later, as the focus expanded to health phenomena in general, the importance of the host and the environment increased, and the thinking changed to one that factors belong to either one or the other. This thinking is based on human ecology, so epidemiology is sometimes called medical ecology. In this way, analytical epidemiology was established as a method of identifying causes, and the causes have progressed from identifying a single pathogen to identifying multiple factors. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "medical ecology" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…細菌学が主流であったころはとくに病原菌という要因を中心に疫学は進歩したが,その後対象が健康現象全体に拡大されるとともに,宿主と環境の重要性が増大し,要因はむしろそのどちらかに属するものという考え方に変化してきた。その考え方はヒューマン・エコロジー(人類生態学)を基盤とするので,疫学を医学生態学medical ecologyということもある。こうして原因究明を分析的疫学が確立し,原因も単一の病原菌から複合要因の究明へと進展してきた。… ※「医学生態学」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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