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- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) - Prevent death and disability from chronic diseases; promote maternal, infant, and adolescent health; and promote healthy personal behaviors.
- Heart Disease and Cancer Prevention - Article referencing scientific studies on soy protein and its role in preventing heart disease and cancer.
- Office of Program Planning and Evaluation - Scope of coverage includes the following: bioterrorism; birth defects; buildings and facilities; cancer prevention; chronic disease prevention; environmental health; global health; health promotion; HIV/AIDS; immunizations; infectious diseases; injury prevention; partners in public health; public health workforce; research, technology, and data; workplace health and safety; ATSDR PIB contents; health assessment; health education; health studies; and toxicology.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Offers an extensive collection of online brochures in environmental health, chronic disease prevention, infectious diseases, injury prevention, occupational safety, and diseases.
- Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Article on diet, exercise and supplements and their role in preventing and treating heart disease, by Elson M. Haas MD.
- Chronic Disease Prevention - Information from the CDC including classes of chronic diseases, conditions, behaviors, populations affected, and publications concerning disease precautions.
- National Center for Health Promotion/Disease Prevention - is the central resource for "All Things Prevention," to include: prevention information, prevention education and training, prevention research, and prevention recommendations for the VHA.
- WHO: Hepatitis A - Extensive factsheet on the disease with cause, prevention, risk factors, organism information, diagnosis, epidemiology, vaccination, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
- Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine - Dedicated to teaching, research and service in health promotion and disease prevention; control and adaptation to chronic disease; and the epidemiology of chronic diseases.
- Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention - Draft statement discusses current use of supplements, outcomes of chronic disease prevention, and research recommendations. Includes preliminary findings by specific vitamin or mineral.
Wikipedia Articles
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is an agency of the European Union (EU), located in Stockholm (Solna Municipality), Sweden. The ECDC has been created to help strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases, such as influenza, SARS and HIV/AIDS.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services based in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia adjacent to the campus of Emory University and east of the city of Atlanta. It works to protect public health and the safety of people, by ...
- CDC National Prevention Information Network - The Center for Disease Control National Prevention Information Network (CDC NPIN) is a source of information and materials for both international and American HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Disease education and prevention organizations.
- Natural history of disease - Natural history of disease refers to a description of the uninterrupted progression of the disease in an individual from the moment of exposure to the causal agents until recovery or death. Bhopal (2002) argues that knowledge of the natural history of disease ranks alongside causal understanding in importance for prevention and control of disease.
- Disease theory of alcoholism - A Disease theory of alcoholism is a theory based on the concept that alcoholism is a disease process. The disease theory is generally accepted by the medical communityAlcohol - Frequently Asked Questions, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which argues that genetic, neurological and behavioral studies distinguish those with alcohol dependence from problem drinkers.