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What are the main goals of disease control operations?
Reducing the incidence of disease, the duration of disease, the risk of transmission, the effects of infection, and the financial burden to the community.
What is the difference between disease control and disease elimination?
Disease control permits the disease agent to persist at a tolerable level in the community, while disease elimination interrupts disease transmission.
What is the term used to describe the interruption of disease transmission over large geographic regions?
Regional elimination
What does disease eradication mean?
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What establishes a state of equilibrium in disease control efforts?
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What disease is currently the only one that has been globally eradicated?
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Which three diseases have been seriously advanced as candidates for global eradication?
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What are the main differences between monitoring and surveillance in public health practice?
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Why did eradication programmes against diseases like malaria, yaws, plague, kala-azar, and yellow fever face disappointment?
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