Infectious disease surveillance /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: M'ikanatha, Nkuchia M.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chicester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed.
• Θέματα: Communicable diseases > Prevention.; Communicable Disease Control.; Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control.; MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.; MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.; MEDICAL > Public Health.; Electronic books.

This fully updated edition of Infectious Disease Surveillance is for frontline public health practitioners, epidemiologists, and clinical microbiologists who are engaged in communicable disease control. It is also a foundational text for trainees in public health, applied epidemiology, postgraduate...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Infectious Disease Surveillance; Contents; Contributors; Foreword to the Second Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; Acknowledgments; Weighing of the Heart; SECTION ONE Introduction to Infectious Disease Surveillance; 1 Infectious disease surveillance: a cornerstone for prevention and control; Introduction; Definition and scope of infectious disease surveillance; What happens in the absence of infectious disease surveillance?; The value of surveillance; Guide seasonal vaccine formulation; Guide vaccination strategies.
• Assess vaccine safetyMonitor adverse events associated with transfusion and transplantation; Inform antimicrobial stewardship programs; Control emergence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms in domesticated animals; Guide allocation of resources for disease prevention and treatment programs; Identify outbreaks and guide disease control interventions; Core infectious disease surveillance and disease-reporting systems; Disease reporters; Laboratory-based surveillance; Diseases selected for surveillance; Case definitions; Data flow; Dissemination of data.
• Internationally notifiable diseases-International Health RegulationsAdditional types of surveillance systems and emerging technologies; Active surveillance; Sentinel surveillance; Animal reservoir and vector surveillance; Detection of pathogens in the environment; Surveillance across borders and mobile populations; Use of health services and administrative data for disease surveillance; Risk factor surveillance; Emerging mobile technologies; Surveillance based on media reports and computer algorithms; Surveillance collaborations with partners outside traditional human public health systems.
• Challenges and promises for the future of infectious disease surveillanceTraining in public health surveillance and epidemiology; Evaluating and improving surveillance systems; References; 2 Origins and progress in surveillance systems; Introduction; Development of the concept of surveillance; Surveillance in public health practice; Opportunities and challenges in public health surveillance; References; 3 Use of surveillance in disease eradication efforts; PART 1: Introduction to the concept and use of surveillance in the eradication of smallpox; Introduction; Smallpox eradication.
• Development of the surveillance conceptSurveillance in the smallpox program; Status of routine case detection and reporting-1967; Actions taken to improve case detection and reporting; Primary surveillance system; Secondary surveillance systems; Dissemination of information within countries; International data collection and dissemination; Conclusion; References; Additional resources; PART 2: Lessons learned in Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) eradication; Introduction; The parasite and international norms; The focal area strategy; Water and the affected populations.