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Population Surveillance

"Population 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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Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Population Surveillance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Population Surveillance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 107 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2006 and 2009
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