Disease Notification

Synonyms

Disease Notifications

Disease Reporting, Infectious

Disease Reportings, Infectious

Exposure Notification

Exposure Notifications

Infectious Disease Reporting

Infectious Disease Reportings

Notification, Disease

Notification, Exposure

Notifications, Disease

Notifications, Exposure

Reporting, Infectious Disease

Reportings, Infectious Disease

Notification or reporting by a physician or other health care provider of the occurrence of specified contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV infections to designated public health agencies. The United States system of reporting notifiable diseases evolved from the Quarantine Act of 1878, which authorized the US Public Health Service to collect morbidity data on cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever; each state in the US has its own list of notifiable diseases and depends largely on reporting by the individual health care provider. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)