The cornerstone of public health practice : public health Surveillance, 1961--2011

Lee, Lisa M.; Thacker, Stephen B.

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CDC STACKS serves as an archival repository of CDC-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other public health information authored or co-authored by CDC or funded partners. As a repository, CDC STACKS retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.

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The cornerstone of public health practice : public health Surveillance, 1961--2011

October 7, 2011
By Lee, Lisa M. ; Thacker, Stephen B.
Source: MMWR Suppl. 2011 Oct 7;60(4):15-21.
Series: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl

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The roots of modern public health Surveillance took hold in 17th century Europe (1), but the seed for CDC's role as America's national agency for collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using data to protect the public's health was firmly planted only in 1961, when the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) was transferred to what was then the Communicable Disease Center (CDC; now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) (2). The advent of MMWR at CDC marked the beginning of CDC's responsibility for aggregating and publishing data weekly on nationally notifiable Diseases and publishing the data annually in MMWR's Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States

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MMWR Suppl. 2011 Oct 7;60(4):15-21.
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MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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p. 15-21
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