title: [The many faces of epidemiology].
abstract: Currently epidemiology is facing some serious challenges of its basic assumptions and values. It is accused of exaggerating minimal health risks of everyday life. In addition there is an ongoing argument between the numerical approach of health problems and the causal deterministic approach, between evidence-based medicine and mechanism-based medicine.
authors.affiliation: Academisch Ziekenhuis, afd. Klinische Epidemiologie, Leiden.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Vandenbroucke
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000639:trends*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: De vele gezichten van de epidemiologie.