Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Latvia

A Bormane; I Lucenko; J Perevoščikovs

doi:10.2807/esw.08.25.02487-en

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Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Latvia
A Bormane , I Lucenko , J Perevoščikovs
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Citation style for this article: Bormane A, Lucenko I, Perevoščikovs J. Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Latvia. Euro Surveill. 2004;8(25):pii=2487. https://doi.org/10.2807/esw.08.25.02487-en

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Abstract

The Latvian public health service dates back to 1947. The Sanitary Epidemiological Service, created in Soviet times, provided two main functions – assessment of health risk factors, including surveillance of communicable diseases, and inspection.