EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHOD: HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS, PROSPECTS

Based on the analysis of the literature and our own ideas using general logical methods of analysis and synthesis, information is presented on the advisability of a broad interpretation of the content of the term "epidemiology", which at the present stage includes two sections with a uniform research methodology: the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the epidemiology of non-infectious diseases. The features that distinguish the epidemiology of non-communicable diseases from classical infectious epidemiology are shown. Attention is paid to evidence-based medicine, the theoretical basis of which is clinical epidemiology. Proposals on the need to introduce a course of epidemiology of non-infectious pathology into the educational process of training specialists in biomedical profile are substantiated as a perspective of epidemiology and the epidemiological method of research in modern conditions.