1. CDC ( Centers for disease control and prevention
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2. MISSION STATEMENT:
“The Centers For Disease Control and Preservation (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, health promotions, and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people in the United States .”

3. ORIGIN: Established in 1942
Made at first to control malaria in the military at first
Was at first called MCWA (Malaria Control In War Areas )
Now based in Atlanta,Georgia

4. PURPOSE: -federal agency meant to conduct and support health promotion
-support and conduct prevention and preparedness activities in the United States
- goal is to improving health all over

5. FUNCTION:
US agency that’s charged with tracking and investigating public health trends
Find out why some diseases are caused and ways to control them
Study different diseases

6. CDC INFORMATION: Does safe cleanups after natural disasters
Helps control outbreaks
one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services
. The agency also leads public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, workplace hazards, disabilities and environmental health threats
Focuses on 5 strategies increasing support to local and state health departments, improving global health, decreasing leading causes of death, strengthening surveillance and epidemiology, and reforming health policies.

7. CDC INFORMATION: Study diseases
Tries to find vaccines or ways to treat diseases
Finds ways to keep diseases from coming into the
United States

8. QUESTIONS: -How many people do the cdc employ? - What is epidemiology?
- What is disease detective camp?
- What is a mutation?

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10. SOURCES: -https://www.cdc.gov
-searchhealthit.techtarget.com/definition/Centers-for-Disease…
-medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2655 -
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