Scientifica
Volume 2018 (2018), Article ID 6943062, 1 page
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6943062

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “The Past, Present, and Future of Public Health Surveillance”

Bernard C. K. Choi1,2

¹Injury Prevention Research Centre, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou 515041, China
²Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1H 8M5

Correspondence should be addressed to Bernard C. K. Choi; bernard.choi@utoronto.ca

Received 1 May 2018; Accepted 3 May 2018; Published 2 July 2018

Copyright © 2018 Bernard C. K. Choi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The article titled “The Past, Present, and Future of Public Health Surveillance” [1] was found to contain material from the following published articles. Although they were all cited and some text was quoted, there was inadvertently insufficient use of quotation in the use of these sources, for which the author sincerely apologizes.

Work by other authors:

(i)Castillo-Salgado [2], which is cited as reference 210.(ii)Declich and Carter [3], which is cited as reference 27.(iii)Teutsch and Churchill [4], which is cited as reference 86.(iv)Freeman et al. [5], which is cited as reference 76.(v)Brachman and Thacker [6], which is cited as reference 190.(vi)McNabb et al. [7], which is cited as reference 151.(vii)Johnson and Heymann [8], which is cited as reference 33.

Authors’ own work:

(i)Choi [9], which is cited as reference 74.(ii)Choi and Pak [10], which is cited as reference 7.

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B. C. K. Choi, “Perspectives on epidemiologic surveillance in the 21st century,” Chronic Diseases in Canada, vol. 19, pp. 145–151, 1998.

B. C. K. Choi and A. W. P. Pak, “Lessons for surveillance in the 21st century: a historical perspective from the past five millennia,” Sozial- und Praventivmedizin, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 361–368, 2001.