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Non-communicable disease. A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases, strokes, heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others. NCDs may be ...
Notifiable infectious diseases. Anthrax. Arboviral diseases, neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive. California serogroup virus diseases. Chikungunya virus disease. Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease. Powassan virus disease. Saint Louis encephalitis virus disease. West Nile virus disease.
The agency's main goal is the protection of public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and worldwide. [4] The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It especially focuses its attention on infectious disease, food borne pathogens ...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. HIV infection. Influenza - avian influenza in humans; Influenza -laboratory confirmed. Novel influenza A infection. Influenza. Influenza -associated pediatric mortality and novel influenza A infection. Japanese encephalitis virus infection. Japanese encephalitis.
Website. niaid.nih.gov. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, / ˈnaɪ.æd /) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). NIAID's mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better ...
The first policies of mandatory notifiable disease originated a long time ago in France, while exact times are unclear we know that at the end of the 18th century Plague was a highly enforced notifiable disease. [11] The current list of notifiable diseases is written in the Code de la santé publique Article D3113-6 and Article D3113-7 (last ...
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". [1][2] Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. [3]
Researchers, particularly those studying the United States, utilize the Chronic Condition Indicator (CCI) which maps ICD codes as "chronic" or "non-chronic". [13] The list below includes these chronic conditions and diseases: In 2015 the World Health Organization produced a report on non-communicable diseases, citing the four major types as ...