A disease, the causative agents of which may pass or be carried from a person, animal or the environment to a susceptible person either directly or indirectly.
Reference
Bailliere's Nurses' Dictionary 24th edition, pg 88
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Diseases that are spread from person to person...such as a cold or athelte's foot. They can be spread by contact or just through the air.
Because non-communicable diseases are not passed from one person to another - communicable diseases are.
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
The scope and significance of communicable diseases is that they are all illnesses that are caused by some kind of infectious agent. Communicable diseases are also called infectious diseases (or transmissible diseases).
What is the mortality rate of communicable diseases in the Philippines?
communicable diseases
Communicable lung diseases would be Tuberculosis, the common cold, HiNi flu, these are contagious. Non-communicable lung diseases would be asthma, COPD, and Lung cancer.
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual was created in 1915.
National Institute of Communicable Diseases was created in 1963.
It means diseases that are infectious.
Communicable diseases are diseases that pass from one human to another or from an animal to a human. Examples include impetigo, chicken pox, flu, tuberculosis and MRSA.