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Early detection: prevention or health promotion programme that assists in the early detection of risks associated with illness and injury. wczesne wykrywanie

Early intervention: identification of persons or groups whose behaviour places them at risk and of persons in the early stages of destructive practices; cf.disease prevention,intervention programme. wczesna interwencja

Early warning system: specific procedure to detect as early as possible any departure from usual or normally observed frequency of phenomena. system wczesnego ostrzegania

Earmarked taxes: taxes collected with the specific purpose of using them for health care. podatki znaczone

Earthing: electrical connection of one or more conductive objects to the earth through the use of metal rods or other devices, also called grounding. uziemienie

Earthquake: sudden shift or movement in the tectonic plate in the Earth's crust; usually occur along fault lines and tend to be unpredictable. trzęsienie ziemi

Ebola (haemorrhagic fever): 1. extremely contagious and usually fatal haemorrhagic fever; symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea, general body pain, internal and external bleeding. Death usually occurs because of multiple organ failure; gorączka krwotoczna Ebola 2. virus causing this disease. wirus Ebola

Ecological analysis: analysis based on aggregated or grouped data; errors in interference may result because associations may be artificially created or masked by the aggregation process. analiza ekologiczna

Ecological correlation: correlation in which the units studied are populations rather than individuals. korelacja ekologiczna

Ecological fallacy: bias that may occur because an association observed between variables on an aggregate level does not necessarily represent the association that exist at an individual level.

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Learner's Dictionary for Students and Professionals
English for European Public Health
, pp. 99 - 120
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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