Historique
Article de Périodique
Illicit drugs and the rise of epidemiology during the 1960s (2007)
Auteur(s) :
MOLD, A.
Année
2007
Page(s) :
278-281
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
35
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
EPIDEMIOLOGIE
;
ETUDE RETROSPECTIVE
;
TABAC
;
PRODUIT ILLICITE
;
METHODE
;
COMPARAISON
Thésaurus géographique
ROYAUME-UNI
Résumé :
Epidemiology has been crucial to the understanding of both tobacco smoking and illicit drug taking as public health issues in Britain since the 1960s. There were, however, siginificant differences in the way in which epidemiology was used between the two psychoactive substances.
Affiliation :
Centre for History in Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK