The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the agency responsible for conducting research and implementing treatment programs for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in the United States.
'Communicable disease' is not one treatable disease; it is a whole class of diseases. There are dozens, and maybe hundreds of communicable diseases with their own causes and treatments.
Elisha Harris has written: 'Pestilential diseases, and the laws which govern their propagation' 'Hints for the control and prevention of infectious diseases' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases, Prevention
Donna Ayesh has written: 'Protecting children with cancer from communicable diseases' -- subject(s): Tumors in children, Communicable diseases in children, Prevention, Immune system
Communicable diseases are diseases that are typically very dangerous and very contagious. Usually, diseases of this kind are spread by one person that catches the illness and unknowingly gives it to others.
William Jephtha Calvert has written: 'Prevention of contagious diseases in school children' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases, Prevention, School hygiene
P. Yekutiel has written: 'Eradication of infectious diseases' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases, Epidemiology, International cooperation, Prevention
Mark Gersovitz has written: 'The size distribution of firms, cournot, and optimal taxation' -- subject(s): Competition, Econometric models, Law and legislation, Taxation 'Human behaviour and the transmission of infectious disease' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Communicable diseases 'The economical control of infectious diseases' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases, Costs, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Communicable diseases, Government policy, Prevention, Preventive health services, Social aspects, Social aspects of Communicable diseases
Diseases are frequently referred to as communicable or non-communicable. Communicable diseases comprise infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and measles, while non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are mostly chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and diabetes. That leads to the term communicable.
Communicable: can be spread through a community (contagious) Non-Communicable: not spread with contact (usually genetic)
non-communicable diseases
What is the mortality rate of communicable diseases in the Philippines?