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Project Tycho, Data for Health: Open Access to Newly Digitized U.S. Weekly Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance Data from 1888-Present
Content Type: Webinar
Background: Public health agencies in the United States such as the Public Health Service before 1950 and the Centers for Disease Control after 1950 have published nationally notifiable disease reports for cities and states… read more… We identified and digitized PDF or paper files of all 6500 weekly nationally notifiable disease surveillance … Excel spreadsheets using independent double data entry. All numeric disease reports (defined as counts) and … usable format - disaggregated, computable, long-term 2. All US weekly data since 1888 - 56 diseases, 125 years, 50 …