Revised edition of: Communicable disease control handbook. 2nd ed. c2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Section 1 Introduction -- Section 2 Common topics -- Section 3 Diseases -- Section 4 Services and organisations -- Section 5 Communicable disease control in Europe.
Summary:
In the past five years, there have been many major changes in health protection practice, and significant scientific progress in the field, all of which are reflected in this new edition of the popular Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook. All chapters have been updated in line with recent changes in epidemiology, new guidelines for control and administrative changes. Basic principles of communicable disease control and health protection, major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, organizational arrangements for all EU countries and sources of further information are covered. A new chapter on pandemic planning has been included, and the influenza chapter has been expanded to cover seasonal, avian and pandemic flu.
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