There are good clinical, scientific, and social reasons to strengthen links between biomedical and environmental research

Clinical epidemiology rarely addresses biological, clinical, epidemiological, environmental, economic and other social and scientific issues posed by environmental chemical contaminants such as endocrine disrupting chemicals. There is a considerable gap between research and practice in clinical medicine and in environmental health. Organizations often fail to appreciate the human and economic costs of the diseases that environmental chemical contaminants contribute to cause. Also, the relative lack of attention to environmental causes of disease by researchers in medicine and clinical epidemiology cannot be explained just on scientific grounds.
Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research