PROBLEMS IN THEORY OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POSSIBLE ROUTES OF ITS DEVELOPMENT (TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE ARTICLE BY SERGEY L. KOLPAKOV)

Abstract

Here I critically review conventional concepts in the national theory of epidemiology to denote promising routes in its development for improving terminology, systematics, and teaching of this discipline in medical universities. I propose that the progress in epidemiological theory should be based on Belyakov model of epidemic process in anthroponoses and must be accompanied by current data from the modern fields of biomedicine. The united ecological approach to form laws of disease spreading may eventually lead to the integration of biomedical disciplines.

Keywords

• общая теория эпидемиологии
• эпидемиология инфекционных и неинфекционных болезней
• структура и содержание теории
• закономерности
• терминология и систематика
• интеграция медико-биологических наук в инфектологии
• theory of epidemiology
• infectious diseases
• non-communicable diseases
• terminology
• systematics
• integration of biomedical disciplines