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Centers for disease control and prevention
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The '''Centers for Disease Control and Prevention''' ('''CDC''') in
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta,
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia, is recognized as the leading
United States government agency agency for protecting the
public health and
safety of people. The CDC provides credible information to enhance health decisions and promotes health through strong partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying
disease prevention and control (especially
infectious diseases),
environmental health,
health promotion and
health education education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
The CDC Centers include:
* National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities [http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/]
* National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion [http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/]
* National Center for Environmental Health [http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/]
* National Center for Health Marketing
*
National Center for Health Statistics
*
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
* National Center for Infectious Diseases [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/]
* National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
* National Center for Public Health Informatics [http://www.cdc.gov/ncphi/]
* National Immunization Program [http://www.cdc.gov/nip/]
*
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the CDC is an agency of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services Department of Health and Human Services. Previously known as the '''Communicable Disease Center''' until
1946 and as the '''Center for Disease Control''' until
1970, the agency was founded in 1946 to help control malaria. The CDC has remained at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats.
Goals
The CDC states that it has two primary health protection goals:
#''Health promotion and prevention of disease, injury, and disability: All people, especially those at higher risk due to health disparities, will achieve their optimal lifespan with the best possible quality of health in every stage of life.''
#''Preparedness: People in all communities will be protected from infectious, occupational, environmental, and terrorist threats.''
Workforce
The workforce at CDC/ATSDR totals more than 9,000 employees in 170 occupations with a public health focus, including physicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, laboratory experts, behavioral scientists, and health communicators.
Although its national headquarters is in Atlanta, more than 3,000 CDC employees work at other locations throughout the United States. Additional CDC staff are deployed to countries around the globe, assigned to almost all state health departments, and dispersed to numerous local health agencies on both long- and short-term assignments.
The CDC campus in Atlanta houses facilities for the research of extremely dangerous biological agents, in a setting well represented in the Dustin Hoffman film ''
Outbreak (film) Outbreak'' although the actual location depicted in the film was supposed to be the
US Army Army's United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases USAMRIID bio-research facility.
Additional information
The CDC also publishes the
peer-reviewed journal ''Emerging Infectious Diseases'' [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/].
External links
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Official site
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European Center for Disease Control and Prevention at Solna, Sweden
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