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The epidemiological factor:
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Marco Maureira
Francisco Tirado
Pedro Torrejón
Enrique Baleriola
ebebaes@gmail.com
www.pobics.com
40's-50's.
-Important legal, political, economical and social shift in medicine (Cold War, first computers...).
-Statistics on (potential) risk assessment, insurances...
-An even more connected-world.
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So, what's new?
-Preparedess and the creation of (imagined and future) scenarios.
-Origin: Cold-War. Langmuir: "the aim of surveillance is not individuals, but the disease itself".
-An each more normalized state of emergency.
-The scale is re-framed: Global Health to understand the molecular one.
About biosurveillance...
Background. 18th-19th Centuries.
-The birth of:
1) Clinic - 2) Modern nation-states
-Population & State tensions.
-New patient fields (Foucault, 1974).
-Aim: population control and (bio)surveillance.
-How? Statistics, public hygiene.
-From a concrete surveillance to a permanent and continuous surveillance.
-The potential (bio)risk is omnipresent. It could be anywhere, in any moment (in a global scale).
-Statistics become obsolete as a surveillance and control tool.
Biosurveillance
Science - Politics
a seamless web
-More than a public-health discipline/concern.
1)Complex relationships
2) Social-technical network
Implications
-11-S Syndromic Surveillance (Fearnley, 2005; 2008).
-Scenarios as states of emergency (Maureira, Tirado, Baleriola, Torrejón, 2015; 2016).
-"Apps", Syndromic observation (Baleriola, Tirado, Maureira, Torrejón, 2016).