Communicable disease epidemiology and control : a global perspective /

• Main Author: Webber, Roger, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Communicable diseases > Prevention.; Communicable diseases > Epidemiology.; Laws and Regulations.; Health Economics, (New March 2000); Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Human Health and the Environment.; Man.; Airborne infection.; Body fluids.; Contacts.; Disease control.; Disease transmission.; Epidemiology.; Foodborne diseases.; Global warming.; Human diseases.; Infections.; Infectious diseases.; Regulations.; Skin.; Socioeconomics.; Soil.; Tropics.; Vector-borne diseases.; Waterborne diseases.; Zoonoses.; Electronic books.
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This second edition focuses on the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases common in tropical, developing and developed countries. It has 19 chapters. The first chapters (1-4) discuss the theory and control methods with practical help on how to implement them. Chapter 5 presents the differen...

Table of Contents:

• Elements of communicable diseases
• Communicable disease theory
• Control principles and methods
• Control strategy and organization
• Notification and health regulations
• Classification of communicable diseases
• Water-washed diseases
• Faecal-oral diseases
• Food-borne diseases
• Diseases of soil contact
• Diseases of water contact
• Skin infections
• Respiratory diseases and other airborne transmitted infections
• Diseases transmitted via body fluids
• Insect-borne diseases
• Ectoparasite zoonoses
• Domestic and synanthropic zoonoses
• New and potential diseases
• List of communicable diseases.