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Data:
information, facts, numbers
CDC Original Sentences:
This report series provides data on older adult health at the national and state levels, as well as calls to action, state success stories, and other resources.
Plain Language Sentences:
This report provides information about older adults' health in each state and across the country. It also suggests actions to improve older adults' health.
NOTE: If the currency or frequency of the publication matters, include the specific publication date or how often the report is published, such as every 3 months.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
Detect:
find, identify
CDC Original Sentences:
The sooner public health professionals can detect the source and spread of diseases or other health threats and investigate their effects in the community; the more quickly they can protect the public.
Plain Language Sentences:
The sooner public health professionals find and check into the causes and results of sicknesses and other health threats in a community, the more quickly they can protect the public's health.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
Disease:
sickness (more common); illness (less common)
CDC Original Sentences:
Screening for cervical, colorectal, and breast cancers also helps find these diseases at an early stage when treatment works best.
Plain Language Sentences:
Checking your body for cancer, even if you don't have symptoms, helps find sicknesses early when treatment often works best.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
Disease registry or registry:
a collection of information or list about a group of people with a specific sickness; system for recording or tracking specific sicknesses
CDC Original Sentences:
The national registry of recognized diabetes prevention programs lists contact information for type 2 diabetes prevention programs in communities across the United States.
It is the only population-based registry in the U.S. that collects information to help scientists learn more about who gets ALS and its causes.
Plain Language Sentences:
The list includes contact information for CDC-approved type 2 diabetes prevention programs in communities across the United States.
This information collection about people with ALS is the only one with information from all over the United States. The facts collected could help scientists learn more about who gets ALS and what causes it.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
Disproportionate:
uneven, affecting one or more groups more or less than others
CDC Original Sentences:
MSM continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV infection, and among races/ethnicities, African Americans continue to be disproportionately affected.
Plain Language Sentences:
Some groups are affected by HIV more than others. Men who have sex with men are most affected. African Americans are strongly affected, too.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
disseminate :
share, communicate, publish
CDC Original Sentences:
We disseminated this information to our partners.
Plain Language Sentences:
We shared this information with our partners.
Entry Last Modified 15 January 2025
Distribution:
where something is located; how something is provided or handed out; how often something, such as a characteristic or event, appears in a group or the pattern of the characteristic or event
CDC Original Sentences:
The distribution, range and abundance of the lone star tick have increased over the past 20-30 years, and lone star ticks have been recorded in large numbers as far north as Maine and as far west as central Texas and Oklahoma.
Plain Language Sentences:
In the past 20 to 30 years, lone star ticks have increased and spread into new areas in the country. Lone star ticks are found in large numbers as far north as Maine and as far west as central Texas and Oklahoma.
Entry Last Modified 29 September 2017
Dose:
amount, number of times
CDC Original Sentences:
Some children 6 months through 8 years of age require two doses of influenza vaccine. Children in this age group who are getting vaccinated for the first time, as well as some who have been vaccinated previously, will need two doses.
Plain Language Sentences:
Some children 6 months through 8 years of age need the flu shot or nasal spray two times if they:
* Are getting vaccinated for the first time
* Have been vaccinated before
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
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