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Communicable disease control : an introduction / by Aileen Plant and Charles Watson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: East Hawthorn, Vic. : IP Communications, 2008.Description: xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780980458602 (pbk.) :
DDC classification:
  • 616.9 22
Partial contents:
1. Introduction. - - 2. Risk management and communicable diseases. - - 3. The role of government in controlling communicable diseases. - - 4. Laws relating to communicable diseases. - - 5. Emerging communicable disease. - - 6. International responses to communicable disease. - - 7. Surveillance of communicable disease in Australia. - - 8.Sanitation and personal hygiene - - 9. Immunisation. - - 10.Case-finding, screening, and contact- tracing. - - 11.Isolation and quarantine. - - 12. Antimicrobial agents. - - 13. Investigating outbreaks. - - 14. Public communication in the management of outbreak of communicable disease. - - 15. Groups who are vunerable to infections. - - 16. Infections acquired in health-care settings. 17.International travel. - - 18. Military and offensive uses of biological weapons.
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Includes index.

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1. Introduction. - - 2. Risk management and communicable diseases. - - 3. The role of government in controlling communicable diseases. - - 4. Laws relating to communicable diseases. - - 5. Emerging communicable disease. - - 6. International responses to communicable disease. - - 7. Surveillance of communicable disease in Australia. - - 8.Sanitation and personal hygiene - - 9. Immunisation. - - 10.Case-finding, screening, and contact- tracing. - - 11.Isolation and quarantine. - - 12. Antimicrobial agents. - - 13. Investigating outbreaks. - - 14. Public communication in the management of outbreak of communicable disease. - - 15. Groups who are vunerable to infections. - - 16. Infections acquired in health-care settings. 17.International travel. - - 18. Military and offensive uses of biological weapons.

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