Health Care

Communicable Disease Control

Programs of surveillance designed to prevent the transmission of disease by any means from person to person or from animal to man.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Programs of surveillance designed to prevent the transmission of disease by any means from person to person or from animal to man.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Control, Communicable Disease
  • Flatten the Curve of Epidemic
  • Flattening the Curve, Communicable Disease Control
  • Parasite Control
  • Control, Parasite

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

general only: prefer specific disease with /prev; INFECTION CONTROL is also available

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  1. N06.850w.780.200

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Communicable Disease Control. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003140. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003140
  2. Communicable Disease Control. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2783798