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Public Health Surveillance

"Public Health Surveillance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data with the purpose of preventing or controlling disease or injury, or of identifying unusual events of public health importance, followed by the dissemination and use of information for public health action. (From Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Public Health Surveillance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Public Health Surveillance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 22 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2019
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