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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Disease Eradication
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Disease Eradication
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Disease Eradication

Preferred term

Disease Eradication  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Disease Elimination
  • Disease Eliminations
  • Elimination, Disease
  • Eliminations, Disease

Note

  • coordinate with specific disease / prev

Scope note

  • Termination of all transmission of infection by global extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment (From Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed).

History note

  • 2012

In other languages

  • taudin eradikaatio

    Finnish

  • infektiosairauden hävittäminen
  • sairauden hävittäminen
  • taudin hävittäminen
  • taudin juuriminen
  • taudin täydellinen hävittäminen
  • Sjukdomsutrotning

    Swedish

  • Sjukdomseliminering
  • Utrotning av sjukdomar

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D060740

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