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  2. Sep 17, 2024 · Disease - Control, Prevention, Treatment: Most diseases are preventable to a greater or lesser degree, the chief exceptions being the idiopathic diseases, such as the inherited metabolic defects.

  3. Sep 17, 2024 · disease, any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism, generally associated with certain signs and symptoms and differing in nature from physical injury. A diseased organism commonly exhibits signs or symptoms indicative of its abnormal state.

  4. Jan 27, 2022 · What does control mean? Control means using treatment to lower the burden of the disease in endemic areas. Burden of disease is another bit of public health jargon: it means the impact of a health problem on a given population, and can be measured using a variety of indicators such as mortality, morbidity or financial cost.

  5. Aug 3, 2023 · The term “disease control” describes (ongoing) operations aimed at reducing: The incidence of disease. The duration of disease, and consequently the risk of transmission. The effects of infection, including both the physical and psychosocial complications; and. The financial burden to the community.

  6. Oct 24, 2016 · Introduction. An infectious disease can be defined as an illness due to a pathogen or its toxic product, which arises through transmission from an infected person, an infected animal, or a contaminated inanimate object to a susceptible host.

    • Jean Maguire van Seventer, Natasha S. Hochberg
    • 10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00516-6
    • 2017
    • 2017
  7. Control: The reduction of disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity or mortality to a locally acceptable level as a result of deliberate efforts; continued intervention measures are required to maintain the reduction. Example: diarrhoeal diseases.

  8. Walter R. Dowdle1. The Dahlem Workshop discussed the hierarchy of possible public health interventions in dealing with. infectious diseases, which were defined as control, elimination ofdisease, elimination of infections, eradica-. tion, and extinction.

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