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Diseases are frequently referred to as communicable or non-communicable. Communicable diseases comprise infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and measles, while non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are mostly chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and diabetes. That leads to the term communicable.
Communicable: can be spread through a community (contagious) Non-Communicable: not spread with contact (usually genetic)
non-communicable diseases
What is the mortality rate of communicable diseases in the Philippines?
communicable diseases
Communicable lung diseases would be Tuberculosis, the common cold, HiNi flu, these are contagious. Non-communicable lung diseases would be asthma, COPD, and Lung cancer.
Non-communicable.
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual was created in 1915.
National Institute of Communicable Diseases was created in 1963.
It means diseases that are infectious.