Review Article
The Past, Present, and Future of Public Health Surveillance
Table 2
Three types of information in the historical records of epidemics (based on an analysis of Table
1).
| Health outcomes | Risk factors | Interventions |
| Plague | Drought | Quarantine | Smallpox | Earthquake | Winter frosts | Relapsing fever | War | Great Fire of London (1666), | Jaundice | Bacteria | Good sanitation | Dancing Mania | Psychological | Broad street pump (1875), | Cholera | Spider | Hand washing | Influenza | Poor sanitation | Vaccine | Lung cancer | Overcrowding, | No smoking | Obesity | Virus | Smoking cessation | | Tobacco | Healthy food | | Excess food | Physical activity | | Physical inactivity | |
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