Milestones belonging to the founding studies and investigations that established modern disease-frequency measurement and outbreak investigation. Belongs here: the Broad Street Pump Investigation, the Doll and Hill British Doctors Study, the Framingham Heart Study founding, the Launch of the Global Burden of Disease Study, the publication of The Modern Rise of Population. Does not belong here: a milestone about sanitation infrastructure specifically, grouped under hygiene and sanitation, or a global immunization campaign, grouped under global health.
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In 1543 he wrote a book De contagione et contagiosis morbis, in which he was the first to promote personal and environmental hygiene to prevent disease.
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