Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control: A Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by Roger Webber

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Cabi Publishing
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Communicable diseases are community problems, which can devastate whole populations, in both developing and developed countries. Epidemiology is the science of communities that looks at many individuals to try and discover common features in them. From this analysis the cause and characteristcics of a disease can be worked out. The first chapters of this book look at communicable disease theory and formulating common principles in both epidemiology and control. Since the first edition a new section on climate change due to global warming and its effect on disease as been added. Later chapters cover various criteria of communicable diseases including more recent outbreaks that have emerged since the first edition and others which many become important in the future. This book will prove an essential tool for doctors, epidemiologists and those working in the control of communicable disease, as well as providing a clear introduction for medical students, public health specialists and those involved in disease control.

✦ Table of Contents

Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control A Global Perspective......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 10
1. Elements of Communicable Diseases......Page 13
2. Communicable Disease Theory......Page 33
3. Control Principles and Methods......Page 44
4. Control Strategy and Organization......Page 74
5. Notification and Health Regulations......Page 85
6. Classification of Communicable Diseases......Page 89
7. Water-washed Diseases......Page 92
8. Faecal–Oral Diseases......Page 101
9. Food-borne Diseases......Page 120
10. Diseases of Soil Contact......Page 136
11. Diseases of Water Contact......Page 148
12. Skin Infections......Page 156
13. Respiratory Diseases and Other AirborneTransmitted Infections......Page 168
14. Diseases Transmitted Via Body Fluids......Page 190
15. Insect-borne Diseases......Page 210
16. Ectoparasite Zoonoses......Page 261
17. Domestic and Synanthropic Zoonoses......Page 281
18. New and Potential Diseases......Page 296
19. List of Communicable Diseases......Page 302
Index......Page 315