Outbreaks and epidemics investigations

This essay aims to discuss the investigation of outbreaks and epidemics, from the first reports available in scientific literature from the 18th century to the present time, using scientific articles and books on the subject for its construction. The main argument developed is the transition from qualitative approaches of epidemiology, which predominated in the early periods, to the quantitative approach, which initially coexists with the qualitative one but became dominant from the second half of the 19th century. It concludes with a brief reflection on the current moment of confronting the COVID-19 epidemic

Biology · Epistemology · Geography · Outbreak · Political science · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Philosophy · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Viral Infections and Vectors · Virology

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  Gabriel Stickle•American Journal of Public Health…•1964

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• The US Public Health Service House-to-House Canvass Survey of the Morbidity and Mortality of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

  Alfredo Morabia•American Journal of Public Health•2021

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• O desafio das doenças emergentes e a revalorização da epidemiologia descritiva

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• William Farr on the Cholera

  John M Eyler•Journal of the History of…•1973

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