The practice of identifying and notifying people who may have been exposed to an infected individual, so they can be tested, monitored or isolated before they unknowingly spread the disease further, a core tool of outbreak investigation since epidemiology practice formalized in the twentieth century.
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Origin YearThe source dates this to the 1930s decade rather than a single year; 1930 is used as the decade's own first year. Practice ClassEpidemiology, outbreak control 1 Classification
Practice ClassPreventive or Public Health Practice 1 Connections
Associated With
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Quarantine, Practices Both are classical outbreak-control measures, frequently deployed together.
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
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Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
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1. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
US Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProgram classification, entity description sentence
The practice of identifying and notifying people who may have been exposed to an infected individual, so they can be tested, monitored or isolated before they unknowingly spread the disease further.
- In Branch: Epidemiology
- Associated With: Quarantine
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Contact Tracing
History sectionQuote, History section
Contact tracing programs were first implemented to track syphilis cases in the 1930s.
World Health Organization Official Site
World Health OrganizationContact tracing questions and answersQuote, Contact tracing questions and answers
This monitoring process is called contact tracing, which can be broken down into 3 basic steps:
Encyclopedia Britannica
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