Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment

Disease Notification

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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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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13 entry terms
  • Infectious Disease Reporting
  • Notification, Disease
  • Disease Notifications
  • Disease Reporting, Infectious
  • Disease Reportings, Infectious
  • Infectious Disease Reportings
  • Notifications, Disease
  • Reporting, Infectious Disease
  • Reportings, Infectious Disease
  • Exposure Notification
  • Exposure Notifications
  • Notification, Exposure
  • Notifications, Exposure

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

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for reporting occur of contagious dis: do not confuse with MANDATORY REPORTING, reporting of "suspected incidence of abuse & neglect"; IM GEN only; NIM with specific dis IM

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  • Communicable Disease Control (1966-1994)

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Disease Notification. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018563. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018563
  2. Disease Notification. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64737098