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Epidemiology, as a public health discipline, prides itself in using scientific principles in studying health problems. Since the world is not a big laboratory, public health practitioners cannot conduct scientific experiments as researchers can, and would, in a laboratory.

Public health practitioners use what is available first, and then collect whatever additional data they need through mostly observational studies. Fortunately, there are many good sources of information available - if you know where to look.