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MeSH Heading: Disease Notification
Tree Number(s): E05.318.362; N06.850.520.373; N06.850.780.200.262
Unique ID: D018563
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018563
Annotation: 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
Scope Note: 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)
Entry Version: DIS NOTIF
Entry Term(s): Exposure Notification; Infectious Disease Reporting; Notification, Disease
Previous Indexing: Communicable Disease Control (1966-1994)
See Also: Mandatory Reporting
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 2019/05/24

Allowable Qualifiers: economics (EC)

history (HI)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

methods (MT)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

Concept UI: M0027827
Scope Note: 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)
Terms: Disease Notification Preferred Term
Term UI T055246
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1995); Infectious Disease Reporting
Term UI T055244
Date12/07/1993
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1995); Notification, Disease
Term UI T055245
Date12/07/1993
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1995)

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