One more year, it is with great pride and pleasure that Gaceta Sanitaria hosts in one of its Supplements the contents of the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Epidemiological Society (SEE). With this, we contribute to offering an outstanding viewpoint on the progress of scientific and professional activity of Spanish epidemiologists. On this occasion, the happy decision to hold the SEE Meeting jointly with the Meeting of the European Federation of the International Epidemiological Association enables the extension of this viewpoint to the most recent contributions of epidemiologists of 20 different European countries, as well as 15 more countries from other continents.
It is with the active commitment of the SEE that Gaceta Sanitaria has become an almost "classic" presence at the meetings of Spanish epidemiologists. In fact, many of them are habitual authors, reviewers and readers of our journal, which is a comforting indicator to our aspiration to be present and useful in the field of epidemiology and the different disciplines involved in public health and health care management.
To all of you who are coming to Toledo from abroad and who may not know Gaceta Sanitaria yet, we would like to inform you that it is the scientific journal of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration (SESPAS), to which 10 different scientific associations and more than 3700 individual members are associated, including the SEE, currently the largest one. Gaceta Sanitaria is a bi-montly peer-reviewed journal, whose origins date from 1888, although its links with SESPAS started in 1986. It publishes annually six regular numbers and various supplements, including one exclusively devoted to review articles, as well as a monograph and the proceedings of different scientific associations linked to SESPAS, such as the present issue. Its contents are included in Medline and are entirely accessible in the Internet (www.doyma.es/gs), including the contents of this issue, contributing to a growing impact of the journal articles (see related communication in this same meeting). Although most published articles are in Spanish, English manuscripts are also welcome.
As Toledo is the living memory of wisdom and tolerance, we also wish that these pages will be a useful instrument for the exchange of new knowledge among the international epidemiological community. On behalf of the Editorial team of Gaceta Sanitaria, we welcome all our old friends, but we also hope to make new friends in Toledo, either as readers or as future authors. We want to congratulate the Organizing and the Scientific Committees for their splendid work and we thank the SEE for its confidence and trust in the contribution of Gaceta Sanitaria to the success of this international meeting.
