TY - JOUR T1 - Does risk factor epidemiology put epidemiology at risk? Peering into the future. JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 608 LP - 611 DO - 10.1136/jech.52.10.608 VL - 52 IS - 10 AU - M Susser Y1 - 1998/10/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/52/10/608.abstract N2 - The multiple cause black box paradigm of the current risk factor era in epidemiology is growing less serviceable. This single level paradigm is likely to be displaced. The signs are that the growing strength of molecular epidemiology on the one side, and of a global epidemiology based on information systems on the other, will come to dominate epidemiology and segregate it into separate disciplines. At the same time, the links with public health interests grow weaker. A multilevel ecoepidemiology has the potential to bind these strands together. ER -