The natural history of disease for trigger finger remains uncertain.

Their aim was to study health as a medical condition in a manner comparable to studies of the natural history of disease.

Natural history of disease is one of the major elements of descriptive epidemiology.

Knowledge of the natural history of disease ranks alongside causal understanding in importance for disease prevention and control.

Doctors speak of the natural history of diseases as a way to understand how therapy alters the usual progression of a disease.

Although morphology often correlates with natural history of disease, tumors of a given pattern may have a broad prognostic range and different responses to treatment.

Sydenham's nosological method is essentially the modern one, except that it wanted the morbid anatomy part, which was first introduced into the natural history of disease by Morgagni nearly a century later.

But for most of this vast stretch of time, the writing was confined to an audience of other physicians, and the main goal was to inform them about the natural history of disease.

The natural history of disease refers to a description of the uninterrupted progression of a disease in an individual from the moment of exposure to causal agents until recovery or death.

Third year students are required to make field trips to nearby villages and provide seminars on such health education topics as the natural history of diseases, environmental sanitation, the dangers of smoking/alcohol, rodent control, etc.

The latest debate over the painter's ailment is just one example of a continuing exercise that certain aesthetically minded doctors engage in, either for cerebral sport or for a better understanding of the natural history of diseases.

Ultimately, such investigative tools and systems will help our understanding of disease processes, the natural history of disease evolution, and the influence on the course of a disease of pharmacological and/or interventional therapeutic procedures.

As Cochrane and Holland (1971) further noted, evidence on health outcomes, i.e., "evidence that screening can alter the natural history of disease in a significant proportion of those screened," is important in the consideration of screening tests since individuals are asymptomatic and "the practitioner initiates screening procedures."

Public health surveillance can be used to 1) assess the overall health status of a population, 2) describe the natural history of disease, 3) monitor disease trends, 4) detect epidemics, 5) evaluate the effect of prevention and control measures, 6) generate hypotheses, and 7) facilitate epidemiologic and laboratory research [ 3 ] .

From that time on, symptoms ceased to be made up into more or less conventional groups, each of which was a disease; on the other hand, they began to be viewed as the cry of the suffering organs, and it became possible to develop Thomas Sydenham's grand conception of a natural history of disease in a catholic or scientific spirit.