Everyday Words for Public Health Communication

A successful program assessment will highlight capacities within and surrounding the participating organization, target population, and problem.

The capacity of the radiology department is a major factor in determining a hospital's capacity to provide timely care for non-critical casualties.

Information about how a program works and what it achieves will be useful if it includes what organizations and people can do about a problem.

The hospital radiology department's size affects how quickly it can provide care for people without life-threatening injuries.

Wood dust, associated with cancers of the nasal cavities and sinuses, is a known carcinogen for unprotected workers exposed regularly from sanding operations and furniture manufacturing.

Workers who breathe wood dust from sanding operations and furniture manufacturing can develop cancers in their noses and sinuses.

Common kinds of breast cancer are ductal carcinoma, the most common kind of breast cancer. It begins in the cells that line the milk ducts in the breast, also called the lining of the breast ducts.

Chronic HBV and HCV infections result in a high disease burden and are leading causes of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States and globally.

A common kind of breast cancer is ductal carcinoma, or cancer in the milk "tubes" or ducts in the breast. Carcinoma is the medical term for cancer. Cancer of the milk ducts begins in the cells inside the ducts.

HBV and HCV infections that last a long time result in a high number of people harmed by the disease. The infections are the leading causes of chronic liver disease and liver cancer in the United States and around the world.

They work with a variety of health care providers, including laboratories, hospitals, and private providers, to obtain case reports on many infectious and some non-infectious diseases.

They work with different health care providers, including labs, hospitals, and private providers, to get descriptions of patients' sicknesses.

A recent case-control study published in the Journal of 21st Century Medicine reported that 80 out of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis seen at a university rheumatology referral center were found to carry the common variant C707T of the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) gene (point mutation at position at 707).

A recent study published in the Journal of 21st Century Medicine compared people with rheumatoid arthritis to people without it. The results show that 4 of 5 people with the sickness had a particular gene with a common and important difference-variant C707T of the rheumatoid arthritis gene.

Smoking cessation has immediate as well as long-term benefits for you and your loved ones.

Quitting smoking has immediate as well as long-term benefits for you and your loved ones.

Chronic diseases and conditions - such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and arthritis - are among the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems. Half of all American adults have at least one chronic condition, and almost one in three have multiple chronic conditions.

Chronic diseases-those that go on for a long time and often don't go away completely-are among the most common and costly health problems, and we often know how to prevent them. Examples of diseases that people live with for long periods, possibly a lifetime, are heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and arthritis. Three in six American adults have at least one chronic disease. Almost two in six adults have more than one chronic disease.

Scabies usually is spread by direct, prolonged, skin-to-skin contact with a person who has scabies.

You can get scabies when your skin touches the skin of a person with scabies.

Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. It spreads through saliva or mucus from the mouth, nose, and throat.

Mumps is a sickness that can spread from one person to another. This can happen when spit or mucus from the sick person's mouth, nose, or throat gets into another person's body through their mouth, nose, or eyes.

When two or more people get the same illness from the same contaminated food or drink, the event is called a foodborne outbreak.

A foodborne outbreak is when people get food poisoning after eating the same unsafe food.

The cumulative estimated number of persons with diagnosed HIV infection ever classified as stage 3 (AIDS) through 2012 in the United States was 1,194,039.

CDC data shows that approximately 1,194,039 people in the U.S. ever diagnosed with HIV developed AIDS by the end of 2012.