Table 9.

Top descriptors related to diseases (>1% of the documents) in scientific output on population surveillance (2000–2019).

MeSH descriptors	2000–2004 (N = 6277)		2005–2009 (N = 8965)		2010–2014 (N = 11,992)		2015–2019 (N = 11,950)		Total (N = 39,184)
	n	%	n	%	n		n	%	n	%
HIV Infections	283	4.51	415	4.63	595	4.96	584	4.89	1877	4.79
Influenza, Human	91	1.45	283	3.16	685	5.71	561	4.69	1620	4.13
Cross Infection	285	4.54	464	5.18	361	3.01	208	1.74	1318	3.36
Breast Neoplasms	128	2.04	159	1.77	167	1.39	367	3.07	821	2.10
Neoplasms	115	1.83	161	1.80	227	1.89	280	2.34	783	2.00
Obesity	102	1.62	224	2.50	259	2.16	196	1.64	781	1.99
Cardiovascular Diseases	75	1.19	163	1.82	270	2.25	251	2.10	759	1.94
Neoplasm Staging	69	1.10	115	1.28	176	1.47	378	3.16	738	1.88
Wounds and Injuries	126	2.01	172	1.92	195	1.63	144	1.21	637	1.63
Communicable Diseases	96	1.53	146	1.63	195	1.63	183	1.53	620	1.58
Colorectal Neoplasms	79	1.26	126	1.41	166	1.38	206	1.72	577	1.47
Chronic Disease	87	1.39	147	1.64	177	1.48	139	1.16	550	1.40
Tuberculosis	81	1.29	106	1.18	142	1.18	167	1.40	496	1.27
Hypertension	81	1.29	130	1.45	148	1.23	134	1.12	493	1.26
Occupational Diseases	125	1.99	102	1.14	149	1.24	77	0.64	453	1.16
Stroke	59	0.94	84	0.94	154	1.28	132	1.10	429	1.09
Staphylococcal Infections	88	1.40	142	1.58	128	1.07	68	0.57	426	1.09
Prostatic Neoplasms	23	0.37	82	0.91	162	1.35	153	1.28	420	1.07
Respiratory Tract Infections	99	1.58	83	0.93	98	0.82	135	1.13	415	1.06
Streptococcus pneumoniae	112	1.78	116	1.29	91	0.76	95	0.79	414	1.06
Communicable Diseases, Emerging	43	0.69	125	1.39	111	0.93	121	1.01	400	1.02
Zoonoses	32	0.51	125	1.39	148	1.23	94	0.79	399	1.02
Pneumococcal Infections	98	1.56	104	1.16	102	0.85	92	0.77	396	1.01