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Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Disease Notification
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Disease Notification
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Disease Notification
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Disease Notification
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Disease Notification
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Disease Notification
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Disease Notification

Preferred term

Disease Notification  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Notification or reporting by a physician or other health care provider of the occurrence of specified contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV infections to designated public health agencies. The United States system of reporting notifiable diseases evolved from the Quarantine Act of 1878, which authorized the US Public Health Service to collect morbidity data on cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever; each state in the US has its own list of notifiable diseases and depends largely on reporting by the individual health care provider. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

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Entry terms

  • Infectious Disease Reporting
  • Notification, Disease

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

  • Notification des maladies

    French

  • Déclaration obligatoire des maladies
  • Notification des maladies à déclaration obligatoire
  • Notification des maladies infectieuses
  • Notification obligatoire des maladies
  • Signalement des maladies à déclaration obligatoire

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