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Article: Keynote address: key issues in public health surveillance for the 1990s. (speeches by Jaime Sepulveda, Malaquias Lopez-Cervantes, Julio Frenk, Jose Gomez de Leon, Miguel Angel Lezana-Fernandez, Carlos Santos-Burgoa) (Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Public Health Surveillance) (Transcript)
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- December 1, 1992
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INTRODUCTION
Health surveillance is widely established as a component of public health services. It has its roots in ideas and practices that have existed for more than three centuries.
It is an interesting coincidence that on the last day of this symposium, we will be commemorating the birth of John Graunt. He was born on April 24, 1610. Graunt and William Petty, his friend and junior by 3 years, are well remembered not only as pioneers of epidemiology and demography, but also for the application of numerical methods to the study of social phenomena. Graunt's famous book Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality was ...