A History of MMWR

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement
• Personal Author:
  Shaw, Frederic E. ; Goodman, Richard A. ; Lindegren, Mary Lou ; Ward, John W.
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Viral Hepatitis
• Description:
  MMWR was established to disseminate the results of public health Surveillance and owes much of its existence to the founder of modern Surveillance, William Farr (1807--1883). In 1878, under the sway of Farr, Lemuel Shattuck, and other pioneers of Surveillance, the U.S. government created the first precursor of MMWR and entered the business of publishing Surveillance statistics. Farr's influence touched MMWR again in 1961 when one of his adherents, Alexander D. Langmuir (Figure 1), brought MMWR to Atlanta and CDC from a federal office in Washington, D.C. (1). Since its beginnings, MMWR has played a unique role in addressing emerging public health problems by working with state and local health departments to announce problems even before their cause is known, rapidly disseminating new knowledge about them weeks or months before articles appear in the medical literature, and publishing recommendations for their control and Prevention. MMWR has played this role time after time---the discovery of Legionnaires disease in the 1970s, AIDS and toxic-shock syndrome in the 1980s, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the 1990s, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the 2000s. At the same time, MMWR also has reported on nearly all the major noninfectious public health problems of the day---environmental emergencies, chronic Diseases, injuries, and new public health technologies. To a great extent, the History of MMWR is the History of disease and injury Prevention and control in the United States (Table 1).
  
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• Subjects:
  CDC / History CDC / MMWR-History Chronic Disease / Epidemiology Disease Notification / History Environmental Health History, 19th Century History, 20th Century History, 21st Century MMWR-History Periodicals As Topic / History Population Surveillance Public Health / History Publishing / Trends

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• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement, 2011; v.60, p. 7-14 (18 pdf pages)
• Series:
  Supplements: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  2380-8950 (print) ; 2380-8942 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  p. 7-14 (18 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  60
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
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