Specific scales include only those items likely to be affected by the disease concerned or its treatment, and have been developed for particular disease categories, principally cancer (ranging from cancer overall to specific treatments/phases).
The focus of these new guidelines changed from specific diseases of concern to any event that could be considered a "public health emergency of international concern".
The WHO International Health Regulations, established in 1969, were originally intended to identify several specific diseases of concern (plague, yellow fever, cholera and smallpox) among travelers entering a given country.
Our study provides a comprehensive analysis of the epidemiology of travel related illness in Europe and opens the door for prospective studies and surveillance of specific diseases of concern within Europe.
Unless you are coming from another African country, you won't need any specific vaccinations; tropical disease concerns are not generally an issue in South Africa.
However, malaria is a major health issue in some parts of South Africa (Kruger National Park, some areas in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and northern KwaZulu-Natal), Unless you are coming from another African country, you won't need any specific vaccinations; tropical disease concerns are not generally an issue in South Africa.
In addition, the complex diseases concerned in IEA-specific datasets actually already have reports about the existence of subtypes on genetic level, such as dilated cardiomyopathy [ 46 ], renal cancer [ 47 ], prostate cancer [ 48 ], colorectal cancer [ 49 ], and thyroid cancer [ 50 ].
Generic measures are those that are applicable to the general population and large variety of diseases, while condition-specific measures are concerned with issues and symptoms involved with a specific disease.
While endorsing the bill, the Senate Finance Committee issued a report expressing concern about expanding Medicaid to cover a specific disease.
We're piloting a specific medicine for a specific disease".
