Control of Communicable Diseases Manual: An Official Report of the American Public Health Association - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875530184 ISBN 13: 9780875530185

Verlag: American Public Health Association, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition, is the must have resource for anyone in the field of public health. Every chapter has been reworked and new chapters have been added. The 20th Edition is a timely update to a milestone reference work, ensuring the Manual's relevance and usefulness to every public health professional around the world.

Each disease chapter is presented in a standardized format that includes the following information:

• Disease name.
• Clinical features.
• Causative agent(s).
• Diagnosis.
• Occurrence.
• Reservoir(s).
• Incubation period.
• Transmission.
• Risk groups.
• Prevention.
• Management of patients.
• Management of contacts and the immediate environment.
• Special considerations.

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Dr Omar A. Khan, MD is president and CEO of Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, an organization that includes the major health systems and research universities in the Delaware Valley. He also holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has co-authored several books on global health and infectious disease, including The End of Polio with Tim Brookes, a Vermont resident and frequent contributor to VPR and other national publications.

Dr David L. Heymann, MD is the Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication. Prior to this, from July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster. From October 1995 to July 1998, Dr Heymann was Director of the WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and prior to that he was the chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on AIDS. Before joining WHO, Dr Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr Heymann also worked for two years in India as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme.

Dr Heymann holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.D. from Wake Forest University, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has completed practical epidemiology training in the two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service of CDC. In 2004 he received the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence and was named to the United States Institute of Medicine. In 2005 he was awarded a Welling Professorship at the George Washington University School of Public Health and the 2005 Donald Mackay medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2007 he received the Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: American Public Health Association
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0875530184
• ISBN 13: 9780875530185
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 729
• Herausgeber: Heymann David L.
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