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Parent topics
- Public health [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epidemiology [r]: The branch of demography that studies patterns of disease in human or animal populations. [e]
- Health policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence (information gathering) [r]: The practice of finding information on opponents, or potential opponents. [e]
- Medical intelligence [r]: Techniques involved in determining the public health of a country, so the physical characteristics of leaders and workers are understood, as well as local hazards to foreigners entering the country or regions of it [e]
Subtopics
Health threats
- Cholera [r]: A life-threatening gastrointestinal infections disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, with a high mortality rate from dehydration unless treated, usually with oral rehydration therapy [e]
- Hepatitis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human immunodeficiency virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lower respiratory infection [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Malaria [r]: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease [e]
- Measles [r]: Highly contagious infection of the respiratory system, and maculopapular skin rash, caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. [e]
- Polio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Severe adult respiratory syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sexually transmitted disease [r]: Infections that are transmitted through exchange of semen, blood, and other body fluids or by direct contact with the affected body areas of infected people. [e]
- Tuberculosis [r]: Infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body. [e]
- Viral hemorrhagic fever [r]: Illnesses that are caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Togaviridae, and Flaviviridae, characterized by fever and bleeding disorders that can all progress to high fever, shock and death in extreme cases. [e]
Health resources
- Chatham House [r]: A U.K. based think tank concerned with international economics, climate and energy matters, and international security [e]
- United States Public Health Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA [e]
- World Health Organization [r]: United Nations' agency for health, focussing on the control and prevention of diseases, and the support for international health programs. [e]
Medical intelligence
- Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: One of the members of the United States intelligence community, charged with providing national-level analysis specifically relevant for military needs, and being the focal point for measurement and signature intelligence [e]
- National Intelligence Council [r]: Part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and previously was a small but select office in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the grand strategy "think tank" inside the U.S. government [e]
