Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, whose mission is “to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.” Part of the Public Health Service, it was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center to fight malaria and other contagious diseases. As its scope widened to polio, smallpox, and disease surveillance, the name was changed to the Center for Disease Control and later pluralized. It now subsumes health statistics, infectious diseases, and environmental health; a National Immunization Program; and an Office on Smoking and Health. It consolidates disease-control data, health promotion, and public health programs, and it provides grants for studies and programs, health information to health care professionals and the public, and publications on epidemiology. Today it is regarded as perhaps the world's foremost epidemiological centre.

CDC

(1) See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice.

(2) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, www.cdc.gov) The U.S. government agency responsible for preventing and controlling contagious diseases. See healthcare IT.

CDC - Control Data Corporation

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He's the head of a Government-owned quango - Commonwealth Development Corporation - set up to fight third world poverty.

Tax hike is the last straw for Sir Michael by Birmingham Mail (England)

CDC Group, formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation, is owned and run by the Department for International Development and invests in private businesses across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Development fund 'uses private equity-type policies' by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

The Asian Coffee project was initially financed by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), whose functions parallel those of the World Bank and which operates in 48 countries around the world.

India: a new soluble coffee plant for export by Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

common-mode error

common-mode gain

common-mode input capacitance

common-mode input impedance

common-mode input resistance

common-mode rejection

common-mode rejection ratio

common-mode signal

common-mode voltage

common-rail injection

common-source amplifier