Social Epidemiology In The 17th Century

According to Krieger (2001:680), the term social epidemiology was developed in 1950. For quite a number of years throughout the history, every one including the scientists, philosophers and physicians wanted to find out the root cause of diseases within a population. There were a number of controversies that came with the concept that the initial cause of a disease in a population is caused by social factors. During the 17th century, physicians, scientist and philosophers made an attempt to understand and predict a disease of which ended up leading to fact in order to identify a disease they had to look at the disease symptoms, the patient’s outcome and outbreak patterns of `a disease (Miller, Warning, Beard & Knapp, 2012:17).
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