The Field of Public Health Emerges in Response to Epidemic Diseases
Overview
Public health broadly combines efforts towards ensuring physical health through medical research, city planning, regulation...
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Epidemic and Pandemic
Epidemic, from the Greek meaning "prevalent among the people," is most commonly used to describes an outbreak of an illness or disease in which the number of individual cases sig...
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Epidemics and Pandemics
Epidemics are outbreaks of disease of bacterial or viral origin that involve many people in a localized area at the same time. An example of an epidemic is the hemorrhagic feve...
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Epidemics, Bacterial
An epidemic is the occurrence of an illness among a large number of people in the same geographical area at the same time. Bacterial epidemics have probably been part of the lives...
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Epidemics, Viral
An epidemic is an outbreak of a disease that involves a large number of people in a contained area (e.g., village, city, country). An epidemic that is worldwide in scope is referred t...
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Epidemic and Pandemic
Epidemic, from the Greek meaning "prevalent among the people," is most commonly used to describes an outbreak of an illness or disease in which the number of individual cases sig...
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THESE WORDS, WRITTEN by a man from the Italian city of Siena, are one of many heartrending descriptions left by survivors of the epidemic of bubonic plague that scoured Europe, North Africa, India, an...
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“Remarkable achievements have been accomplished in the control of many epidemic infectious diseases in this century.”
—American Medical Association’s Council on Scientific A...
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The Field of Public Health Emerges in Response to Epidemic Diseases
Epidemic and Pandemic
Epidemics and Pandemics
Epidemic and Pandemic
Epidemics
Epidemics