Health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic
use of routinely collected health
data to guide public health action in a
timely fashion.
This paper describes the creation and
growth of national surveillance systems
in Canada and their impact on chronic
disease and injury prevention.
In 2008, the authors started a review process
to retrace the history of the early development
of national chronic disease surveillance
in Canada from 1960 to 2000. A 1967
publication describes the history of the
development of the Laboratory of Hygiene
from 1921 to 1967. This review is a sequel
to that paper and describes the history of the
development of national chronic disease
surveillance in Canada before and after the
formation of the Laboratory Centre for
Disease Control (LCDC).
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