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  2. Human-to-human transmission - Wikipedia

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    "Understanding the Risk to Healthcare Personnel: Fomite Persistence". Preventing Transmission of Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Diseases: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Personnel: Update 2010. Washington: National Academies Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-309-16254-8

  3. Eradication of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Three of the diseases here listed (lymphatic filariasis, measles, and rubella) are among the diseases believed to be potentially eradicable by the International Task Force for Disease Eradication, and if successful, regional elimination programs may yet prove a stepping stone to later global eradication programs.

  4. Unsolved problems in medicine - Wikipedia

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    As Richard Green pointed out in a review on pedophilia, psychiatry should identify unhealthy mental processes and treat them, and not focus on cultural norms, moral questions or legal issues. [7] As textbooks and handbooks like DSM are usually written by Western authors, a culturally neutral definition of mental diseases is an unsolved problem.

  5. Epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    Modern population-based health management is complex, requiring a multiple set of skills (medical, political, technological, mathematical, etc.) of which epidemiological practice and analysis is a core component, that is unified with management science to provide efficient and effective health care and health guidance to a population.

  6. Lists of diseases - Wikipedia

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    List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases - diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals. Lists of plant diseases; List of pollution ...

  7. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Diseases and disorders UCPPS Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS + CP/CPPS) UCD Unicentric Castleman disease: UDA Urticaria-deafness-amyloidosis: UFS Urofacial syndrome: USP7-related diseases Ubiquitin specific protease 7-related diseases UTI Urinary tract infection: UC Ulcerative colitis: URI Upper respiratory infection

  8. Comparative effectiveness research - Wikipedia

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    Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the direct comparison of existing health care interventions to determine which work best for which patients and which pose the greatest benefits and harms. The core question of comparative effectiveness research is which treatment works best, for whom, and under what circumstances. [ 1 ]

  9. Research question - Wikipedia

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    A research question is "a question that a research project sets out to answer". [1] Choosing a research question is an essential element of both quantitative and qualitative research . Investigation will require data collection and analysis, and the methodology for this will vary widely.