Public health then and now
Subtitle: celebrating 50 years of MMWR at CDC
Series: Morbidity and mortality weekly report -- v. 60, suppl.; MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report -- v. 60, suppl.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Atlanta, GA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Public health
Other titles: Celebrating 50 years of MMWR at CDC
Description: "This supplement of MMWR celebrates the 50th anniversary of CDC's first publication of MMWR on January 13, 1961. MMWR was not new in 1961, but it was new to CDC, an agency that itself had been founded only 15 years earlier, in 1946. The longer history of MMWR traces back to July 13, 1878, when the first predecessor of MMWR, called simply The Bulletin of the Public Health, was inaugurated. The Bulletin was established in accordance with the first National Quarantine Act, passed by Congress 2 months earlier. The Act ordered the Surgeon General of the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service to begin publishing abstracted disease reports collected from U.S. consuls in foreign lands to alert U.S. quarantine officials about what diseases could be expected among passengers arriving on steamships. In the 83 years from 1878 to 1961, MMWR went through several incarnations. By 1952, the publication had its current name and was being published by the National Office of Vital Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1960, CDC's renowned chief of epidemiology, Alexander D. Langmuir, decided that MMWR should be transferred to CDC (then known as the Communicable Disease Center). After much discussion, and as Langmuir later said in an interview, 'all sorts of pulling out teeth by the roots without anesthesia and all kinds of internal frictions,' in 1960, MMWR was transferred to CDC." -p. 2
Notes: "October 7, 2011."

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: A History of MMWR; title: The cornerstone of public health practice: public health surveillance, 1961-2011; title: Evolution of epidemic investigations and field epidemiology during the MMWR era at CDC; title: 1961-2011; title: Laboratory contributions to public health; title: History of statistics in public health at CDC, 1960-2010: the rise of statistical evidence; title: Changing methods of NCHS surveys: 1960-2010 and beyond; title: Vaccine-preventable diseases, immunizations, and MMWR; title: 1961-2011; title: Control of health-care-associated infections, 1961-2011; title: AIDS: the early years and CDC's response; title: Fifty years of progress in chronic disease epidemiology and control; title: Injury prevention, violence prevention, and trauma care: building the scientific base; title: Environmental health in MMWR; title: 1961-2010; title: Occupational epidemiology and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; title: Trends in global health and CDC's international role, 1961-2011; title: Advice to a modern-day Rip Van Winkle: changes in state and local public health practice during the MMWR era at CDC