The state of complete physical, mental, and social well: being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health has many dimensions (anatomical, physiological and...

The international, transdisciplinary, and intersectoral research, knowledge, and policies for improving population health and health determinants on a planetary scale.

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The process of understanding how things interact within a whole to produce its characteristics or properties. It is carried out many different ways using different techniques,...

Mortality is the number of deaths for a given area during a given period. Infant mortality is the mortality of live-born children aged less than one year.

The invasion of the body or a part of the body by a pathogenic agent, such as a microorganism or virus. Under favorable conditions the agent develops or multiplies, the results...

A primary host or definitive host is a host in which the parasite reaches maturity and, if possible, reproduces sexually; A secondary host or intermediate host is a host that...

A period of subclinical or inapparent pathologic changes following exposure, ending with the onset of symptoms of infectious disease.

See "physical check"

A disease or pathogen for which there is a statutory requirement to report laboratory confirmed isolation of the specified organism to public health or veterinary authorities

A Risk Assessment that provides numerical expressions of risk and indication of the attendant uncertainties (stated in the 1995 Expert Consultation definition on Risk Analysis).

Closeness of estimates to the unknown true values

The ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food-producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed, through all stages of...

A method used to examine the behaviour of a model by measuring the variation in its outputs resulting from changes to its inputs.

Import and the placing of goods under the customs procedures referred to in points (b) to (f) of Article 4(16) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, as well as their entry into a free...

Organism (e.g. bacterium, virus and parasite) that can cause disease.

The number of sampling units which are to be included in the sample. In the case of a multi-stage sample this number refers to the number of units at the final stage in the...

Alignment of DNA fragments to a closely related reference genome to create a representative of the original DNA sample

A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and...

Obtaining satisfactory or acceptable results set in Annex I in Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 when testing against the values set for the criteria through the taking of samples,...