The Problem of Causality in the Current Epidemiological Science
The article discusses the causality of human pathology on the background of half a century of ideological struggle in the national epidemiological science on this issue. Evaluated the results of discussions between supporters and monokauzalizma conditionalism that influenced the formation of the reason the epidemic process as the interaction of populations of the pathogen and parasite under the regulation of social and environmental conditions. On the basis of generally accepted provisions of environmental concept academician V.D. Belyakov and philosophical principle structuring science the opportunities and obstacles to the formation of the structure of epidemiology and epidemiological terminology development, independent of origin pathology.