What is another word for social disease?

Pronunciation: [sˈə͡ʊʃə͡l dɪzˈiːz] (IPA)

The term "social disease" is often used to describe an infectious disease that is transmitted through social contact. However, in recent years, the term has taken on negative connotations and is often used to stigmatize people with sexually transmitted infections (STIs). As a result, many healthcare professionals and organizations are opting to use more accurate and less judgmental terminology. Synonyms for the term "social disease" include sexually transmitted infections or diseases (STIs or STDs), sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs), sexually transmitted viruses (STVs), and sexually transmitted bacteria (STBs). These more precise terms help to remove the stigma associated with STIs and promote education and understanding around prevention and treatment.

Synonyms for Social disease:

What are the hypernyms for Social disease?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    pathology, physical illness.

Famous quotes with Social disease

  • Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
    Grace Abbott
  • I didn't become rich, but I was usually comfortable. That is a social disease, the symptom of which is the ability to ignore it while your society develops weeping pustules and has its brains eaten out by radioactive maggots.
    John Varley

Related words: social viral diseases, global health policy and social diseases, social and behavioral determinants of disease, social determinants of disease, global health and social disease, social determinants of health and disease, a changing focus in global health policy

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