EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

This paper delineates in short the way in which epidemiology and obste trics and gynaecology could profit from each other's expertise and why . Epidemiology addresses the rates of occurrence in illnesses land the ir outcomes in relation to potential determinants of these in any real m of medicine. Obstetrics and gynaecology concern themselves with the female reproductive system, notably. Epidemiologic methods are essenti al to valid research, and obstetrics and gynaecology are essential to valid inference of epidemiologic research. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science I reland Ltd.