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Descriptor English: Population Surveillance
Descriptor Spanish: Vigilancia de la Población
Descriptor vigilancia de la población
Scope note: Escrutinio continuo de una población (población general, población de estudio, población objetivo, etc.) con empleo generalmente de métodos que se distinguen por su viabilidad, uniformidad y frecuentemente por su rapidez, en lugar de una total precisión.
Descriptor Portuguese: Vigilância da População
Descriptor French: Surveillance de la population
Entry term(s): Surveillance, Population
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.980.438.700
N05.715.360.300.800.438.625
N06.850.520.308.980.438.700
N06.850.780.675
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011159
Scope note: Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.
Annotation: IM human, NIM animal; specify geog
Allowable Qualifiers: MT methods
Public MeSH Note: 67
History Note: 67(65)
DeCS ID: 28442
Unique ID: D011159
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Date Established: 1967/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/07/03
Population Surveillance - Preferred
Concept UI M0017328
Scope note Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.
Preferred term Population Surveillance
Entry term(s) Surveillance, Population



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