Graphic from Rasmussen University
We are all epidemiologists
These days, it seems, everybody is an epidemiologist. If only. If only we could all adopt the habit of thinking in terms of population health - which is what epidemiologists do - then life would definitely be a lot better for a great many of us. But population health can be a little tricky to fully grasp, I find, and even trickier to use as the basis for personal decision-making. The tricky side of population health has been brought to the top of my mind recently by a lot of articles about the efficacy of vaccines,…