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In the last 300 years the greatest advances in public health have been achieved by population health initiatives that have reduced or eliminated major threats or scourges to whole populations. Likewise, the future health of communities will depend on a similar population perspective that has come to be described as public health. As past successes achieved by public health practitioners depended largely on surveillance systems based on in-patient and disease registries, recording of vital events, laboratory and sentinel reporting, administrative systems, and population surveys, so too will future health status and outcomes. Information technology may change the way in which public health surveillance is conducted and information is gathered, processed, and accessed, but the fundamental concept of population surveillance will remain.
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Ottoson, J.M., Wilson, D.H. (2003). Did They Use It?. In: McQueen, D.V., Puska, P. (eds) Global Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0071-1_10
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