endemic diseases

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• Endemic — Present in a community at all times but in relatively low frequency. Something that is endemic is typically restricted or peculiar to a locality or region. For example, malaria is endemic in some areas of Africa. And traffic in illicit drugs is… …   Medical dictionary

• endemic — I. adjective Etymology: French endémique, from endémie endemic disease, from Greek endēmia action of dwelling, from endēmos endemic, from en in + dēmos people, populace more at demagogue Date: 1759 1. a. belonging or native to a particular people …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Diseases of poverty — is a term sometimes used to collectively describe diseases and health conditions that are more prevalent among the poor than among wealthier people. In many cases poverty is considered the leading risk factor or determinant for such diseases, and …   Wikipedia

• endemic — endemic, epidemic An endemic disease is one that is regularly or only found among a particular people or in a particular region, whereas an epidemic disease is a temporary but widespread outbreak of a disease. Epidemic, but not endemic, also… …   Modern English usage

• Diseases, rickettsial — The infectious diseases caused by the rickettsiae fall into 4 groups:(1) typhus: epidemic typhus, Brill Zinsser disease, murine (endemic) typhus, and scrub typhus; (2) spotted fever—Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Eastern tick borne… …   Medical dictionary

• endemic disease — a disease that is present or usually prevalent in a population or geographical area at all times; such diseases usually have low mortality. Called also endemia. See also holoendemic d. and hyperendemic d. Cf. epidemic d …   Medical dictionary

• ENDEMIC —    a term applied to diseases which affect the inhabitants of certain countries and localities, and which arise from strictly local causes, e. g. neighbouring swamps, bad sanitation, impure water, climate, &c …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• endemic — adj. occurring frequently in a particular region or population: applied to diseases that are generally or constantly found among people in a particular area. Compare: ecdemic, epidemic, pandemic …   The new mediacal dictionary

• endemic —   a. native; indigenous; generally present in a particular place or class; n. such disease.    ♦ endemiology, n. study of such diseases.    ♦ endemism, n …   Dictionary of difficult words

• epidemic, endemic — Endemic means peculiar to a given country or people ; in medicine, the term is applied to a disease characteristic of, or confined to, a particular locality: Malaria is endemic in certain warm, humid countries. Epidemic, much more often used,… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• Eradication of infectious diseases — Eradication is the reduction of an infectious disease s prevalence in the global host population to zero.[1] It is sometimes confused with elimination, which describes either the reduction of an infectious disease s prevalence in a regional… …   Wikipedia