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com·mu·ni·ca·ble
/ kəˈmyoōnikəbəl/
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adj.
able to be communicated to others:
the value of the product must be communicable to the potential consumers.
∎
(of a disease) able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another; contagious or infectious.
DERIVATIVES:
com·mu·ni·ca·bil·i·ty
/ kəˌmyoōnikəˈbilitē/ n.
com·mu·ni·ca·bly
/ -blē/ adv.
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Communicable Disease Control in Emergencies: A Field Manual
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Public Health; 3/1/2008; ; 659 words
; ...implemented to prevent communicable diseases from occurring. This chapter...emphasizes primary prevention of communicable disease. Chapter 3 (surveillance...is to monitor and detect communicable diseases early. Chapter 4 (Outbreak...
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Setting priorities: the Canadian experience in communicable disease surveillance. (speech by Anne O. Carter of Canadian Medical Association) (Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Public Health Surveillance) (Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 12/1/1992; 700+ words
; ...communicable diseases and has the power...Thus, although communicable disease surveillance...subcommittee on communicable diseases that a rational...would allow each disease proposed for...criterion for that disease. Criteria 1...interested in all communicable ...
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Scientists at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine target communicable disease.
Newspaper article from: AIDS Weekly; 1/26/2009; 700+ words
; ...distinct pattern in communicable disease policy development...priority assigned to communicable diseases in Finland, Norway...with communicable diseases in today's borderless...Medicine (see also Communicable Disease). The researchers...
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Reporting of non-communicable disease research in low- and middle-income countries: a pilot bibliometric analysis*
Magazine article from: Journal of the Medical Library Association; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...to infectious disease in low- and middle...arising from these diseases in endemic areas...burden of non-communicable, chronic diseases-such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension...burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) in LMICs...belief that these diseases ...
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Reports from Simon Fraser University advance knowledge in communicable disease.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week; 10/17/2009; 700+ words
; ...The propagation of communicable diseases through a population...model of infectious disease is proposed for a...simulate the spread of a communicable disease in an urban...spatiotemporal dynamics of communicable disease propagation is presented...involved in infectious ...
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Communicable disease control reviewed.
Newspaper article from: World Disease Weekly; 11/9/2004; 700+ words
; ...organizing principle for communicable disease control (CDC), considering...to tackle major global communicable diseases; and guide the political...Health Policy and Planning (Communicable disease control: a 'Global Public...
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Data on communicable disease published by researchers at Fudan University.
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 9/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...The burdens of non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer...report (see also Communicable Disease). "We initiated...factors for common non-communicable diseases. The sample size...
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Communicable disease control in emergencies: a field manual
Magazine article from: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health; 7/1/2006; ; 544 words
; ...sets standards for communicable disease control in...outbreak control and disease management. Chapter...prevention and treatment of communicable diseases are outlined. The...Chapter five outlines disease prevention and control for a number of major communicable diseases ...
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Moving public health surveillance onto the health agenda: the perspective of a district health officer. (Bureau of Communicable Disease Control General Communicable Disease Programs Director Guthrie S. Birkhead) (Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Public Health Surveillance) (Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 12/1/1992; 700+ words
; ...I will focus on communicable disease surveillance...legal framework for communicable disease surveillance requires...list of notifiable diseases. Separate sections...govern the conduct of communicable disease surveillance in...
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NetImpact Integrates Communicable Disease Identification And Treatment System Into NetCare7.0(TM).
PR Newswire; 8/4/2003; 700+ words
; ...0(TM). The communicable disease identification and...for 150+ clinical diseases, including all communicable illnesses of significance...sexually transmitted diseases, the various zoonoses...for each specific disease process. These...
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Communicable Disease Control
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL A communicable disease is an illness caused...incidence of a specified disease in a defined geographic...nature or the laboratory). Communicable diseases may be classified according...schistosomiasis. Other communicable diseases may ...
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Diagnostic Testing for Communicable Disease
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...DIAGNOSTIC TESTING FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASE Dorland...as to the cause of disease are drawn from those...many infectious or communicable diseases, the recovery and...number of respiratory diseases caused by viruses...identification of the disease agent, or the ...
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communicable disease
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing
communicable disease ( contagious disease , infectious disease ) (kŏ- mew -nik-ăbŭl) n. any disease that can be transmitted from one person to another. This may occur by direct physical contact, by common...
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communicable diseases
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
communicable diseases illnesses...Some infectious diseases can be spread...fever. The human disease carriers, i...air. Control of communicable disease depends upon recognition...persons with certain diseases. Proper antisepsis...
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Communicable Diseases
Book article from: American Decades
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Measles Measles, a childhood disease characterized by high fever...Although research into the diseases of typhoid and diphtheria...Institute for Contagious Diseases was founded by Mr. and...finger of a nurse with the disease and then swabbed on the...
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