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Environmental health Environmental health
Environmental Health Environmental health describes the effects of civilization, culture, personal habits, pollution, population growth, and travel on human health. It is a new science that measures a variety of factors leading to acquired and congenital diseases. Acquired diseases are illnesses... Read more
Chagas disease Chagas disease
Chagas' disease disease of South and Central America caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. It usually affects children and young adults and is transmitted by the feces of infected insects, typically the assassin bug . Most of those infected have mild symptoms, such as fever and swelling and... Read more
communicable diseases communicable diseases
communicable diseases illnesses caused by microorganisms and transmitted from an infected person or animal to another person or animal. Some diseases are passed on by direct or indirect contact with infected persons or with their excretions. Most diseases are spread through contact or close... Read more
Contagious Diseases Contagious Diseases
Contagious Diseases Death in early childhood was a heartbreaking fact of life everywhere until the early twentieth century. Gravestones from the nineteenth century and earlier commemorate the death before the end of their first decade of life of between a quarter and half of all the children born... Read more
sexually transmitted disease sexually transmitted disease
sexually transmitted disease (STD) or venereal disease, term for infections acquired mainly through sexual contact. Five diseases were traditionally known as venereal diseases: gonorrhea , syphilis , and the less common granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, and chancroid. In the... Read more
Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases
INFECTIOUS DISEASES CONCEPT The history of the human species, it has been said, is the history of infectious disease. Over the centuries, humans have been exposed to a vast amount and array of contagious conditions, including the Black Death and other forms of plague,... Read more
opportunistic opportunistic
opportunistic (op-er-tew-nis-tik) adj. denoting a disease that occurs when the patient's immune system is impaired by, for example, an infection, another disease, or drugs. The infecting organism rarely causes the disease in healthy persons. Opportunistic infections, such as Pneumocystis pneumonia... Read more
epidemic epidemic
epidemic outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present. A disease that tends to be restricted to a particular region (endemic disease) can become epidemic if nonimmune persons are present... Read more
Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular Disease
C ARDIOVASCULARD ISEASE The American Heart Association (AHA) uses the term cardiovascular disease (CVD) to describe various diseases that affect the heart and circulatory system. These diseases include coronary artery (heart) disease, hypertension, congestive... Read more
Peripheral Vascular Disease Peripheral Vascular Disease
Peripheral Vascular Disease Definition Peripheral vascular disease is a narrowing of blood vessels that restricts blood flow. It mostly occurs in the legs, but is sometimes seen in the arms. Description Peripheral vascular disease includes a group of diseases in which blood vessels become... Read more

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