[Stages and results of Epidemiology Department activities].
The paper sums up the activities of Department of Epidemiology of Medical Prophylaxis Faculty, I. M. Setchenov Moscow Medical Academy, in the 70 years of its existence. The Department plays the leading role in training specialists for sanitary and epidemiological service of the country. The main research, training, and methodological works in this speciality were prepared by the Department staff members, who prepared curricula for pre- and postgraduate training. For many years the department has been the methodological center in epidemiology training. Trends of research at the Department are concentrated on the pressing problems of general and special epidemiology. Due to activities of the department staff, epidemiological aspects have been studied and fundamentals of prevention and liquidation of many infectious diseases in the country have been formulated: enteric and streptococcal infections, typhus, tularemia, diphtheria, etc. Problems of epidemiological geography, including nosogeography, territorial and republican epidemiology have been investigated. Functioning of parasitic systems and mechanisms of epidemic process in some infections have been characterized with due regard for modern theoretical, methodological, and organization base of epidemiology. The data were used for developing new basis and organization forms of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases.
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