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Introduction
Recent research on various diseases has significantly improved the health sector not
only by preventing and reducing the spread of the diseases but also getting the cure of
such ailments and providing the solution to the related diseases. Establishment timelines
on different epidemiology are one of the contributing factors of such success, moving a
great milestone towards the achievement of a healthier environment (Haveman-Nies, et.al
2017). Between the 20th and 21st century various changes have been done including but
not limited to industrialization, urbanization, and technology that helped in the realization
of new methods of fighting diseases and achieving goals of different disease
epidemiology. Epidemiology may be viewed for sourcing tools for health workers and is
also referred to as basic science of public health (Gouda & Powles, 2014). Therefore, the
article sheds the light on various timelines from 1989 to date by discussing the
epidemiology history of public health.
Antiquity Timeline for the History of Public Health and Epidemiology
1989
Dr. Mitchel Gail invented a model that was used in assessing and
calculating the risks of breast cancer in women. The algorithm
considered personal information such as medical history, family
background, medical history and reproductive history of the woman
through biopsies and hyperplasia (Nioi, 2016). The algorithm used
by Gail also adjusted the onset of the menstruation cycle and the

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live birth of the child in the same age group.
1990
Lynch syndrome was realized as the first onset of cancer. On the
same Li-Fraumeni was discovered after various death certificates of
more than 600 patients known to have rhabdomyosarcoma were
reviewed (Buckley, et.al, 2018). The condition had a germ mutation
of p53 whose main role is to control and prevent genomic mutation
1992
CARET and ATBC trials showed dietary vitamins and cancer have
a relationship. It well indicated that there were more deaths
associated with patients with lung cancer who are taking vitamin A
with beta carotene. During the same year, BRCA 2 was said to
have raised the chances of getting breast and ovarian cancer.
1994
1994 Center for Disease Control and Prevention, due to the
prevalence of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus, in the
transplant of the organs or during the surgery, the organization
distributed some guidelines to follow to prevent the transmission of
the virus. The guidelines required donor screening, which included
screening for the signs. In the associated with HIV. The donor’s
blood and organs to be transplanted were to be screened for HIV