disease control

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hastalık kontrolü

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(Askeri) Hastalıktan korunma ve önleme merkezleri
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Center for Disease Control
public health organization in the United States that researches contagious diseases, CDC
Centers for Disease Control
CDC a US government organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, which works to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, and studies ways to improve people's health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, whose mission is "to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. " Part of the Public Health Service, it was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center to fight malaria and other contagious diseases. As its scope widened to polio, smallpox, and disease surveillance, the name was changed to the Center for Disease Control and later pluralized. It now subsumes health statistics, infectious diseases, and environmental health; a National Immunization Program; and an Office on Smoking and Health. It consolidates disease-control data, health promotion, and public health programs, and it provides grants for studies and programs, health information to health care professionals and the public, and publications on epidemiology. Today it is regarded as perhaps the world's foremost epidemiological centre
center for disease control and prevention
a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)
disease control

    Hyphenation

    dis·ease con·trol

    Turkish pronunciation

    dîziz kıntrōl

    Pronunciation

    /dəˈzēz kənˈtrōl/ /dɪˈziːz kənˈtroʊl/
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