History of CDC Surveillance Activities

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• Alternative Title:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: CDC Surveillance Summaries, March 1, 1990 / Vol. 39 / No. SS-1: History of CDC Surveillance Activities
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases
• Description:
  CDC has been actively involved in disease-Surveillance activities since the formulation of the Communicable Disease Center in 1946. The original scope of the National Surveillance Program included the study of malaria, murine typhus, smallpox, psittacosis, diphtheria, leprosy, and sylvatic plague. In 1954, a Surveillance section was established within the Epidemiology Branch of CDC, primarily concerned with planning and conducting continuing Surveillance and making periodic reports. Occurrences such as the Asian influenza pandemic and the discovery of Legionnaires' disease prompted the involvement of CDC in additional Surveillance activities. Over the years the Surveillance activities of CDC have expanded to include not only new areas in infectious disease but also programs in human reproduction, injuries, environmental health, chronic disease, risk reduction, and occupational safety and health. Ongoing evaluation of these programs has led to new Methods of data collection and Analysis and has prompted examination of how data are disseminated to the public health community.
  
  The publication titled CDC Surveillance Summaries was initiated in 1982 after a survey was made of CDC staff and state epidemiologists. Results of the survey suggested that improved coordination of Surveillance reports with the MMWR and the MMWR Annual Summary (later titled Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States) would facilitate timely publication; provide greater uniformity in the acquisition, evaluation, and reporting of Surveillance data; and encourage the use of these data.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Data Collection History, 20th Century Periodicals As Topic Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 1990; v. 39, no. 1, p. iii-iv (2 pdf pages)
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; MMWR. CDC Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC Surveillance summaries
• Genre:
  Historical Article ; Introductory Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  p. iii-iv (2 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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