{"id":427,"date":"2006-11-27T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/helicopter-epidemiology\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T13:44:55","slug":"helicopter-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/helicopter-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already at the very early beginning of my career I have been told about the dangers of &#8220;armchair&#8221; epidemiology &#8211; researchers only managing studies. There seems to be even another extreme, called &#8220;helicopter epidemiology&#8221; as pinpointed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0140673606688144\">Lancet<\/a> recently <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;fly into a remote location containing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153interesting individuals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, collect descriptive data and biological specimens, fly out, process, and publish the information elsewhere&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already at the very early beginning of my career I have been told about the dangers of &#8220;armchair&#8221; epidemiology &#8211; researchers only managing studies. There seems to be even another extreme, called &#8220;helicopter epidemiology&#8221; as pinpointed in the Lancet recently &#8230;fly into a remote location containing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153interesting individuals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, collect descriptive data and biological specimens, fly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/helicopter-epidemiology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helicopter epidemiology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4,314],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-population-epidemiology","tag-biological_specimens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}