Health protection : principles and practice / edited by Sam Ghebrehewet [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghebrehewet, Sam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Physical Description:

xxii, 451p. ; ill. (b&w).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection. It is aimed at individuals training in health protection and public health including those with a non-specialist background.

Contents:

Cover

Health Protection

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Abbreviations

About the editors

List of Contributors

Section 1 The basics

1 What is health protection?

2 Who is involved in health protection?

3 Key principles and practice of health protection

4 The basics of infection microbiology

Section 2 Infectious disease control case studies and scenarios

5 Vero cytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157

6 Hepatitis B

7 Hospital multi-​resistant infections

8 Influenza

9 Legionnaires' disease

10 Measles

11 Meningitis and meningococcal disease

12 Tuberculosis

Section 3 Emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR), and business continuity case studies and scenarios

13 Business continuity: illustrated by hospital ward closures

14 Fire and fear: immediate and long-​term health aspects

15 Flooding and health: immediate and long-​term implications

Section 4 Environmental Public Health practice case studies and scenarios

16 Ambient air pollution and health

17 Cancer and chronic disease clusters

Section 5 Health protection tools

18 Hospital and community infection prevention and control (IPC)

19 Immunization

20 Incidents and outbreak management

21 Health protection surveillance

22 Essential statistics and epidemiology

23 Conducting epidemiological studies in health protection

24 Using evidence to guide practice in health protection

25 Quality assurance and audit

Section 6 New and emerging health protection issues

26 New and emerging infectious diseases

27 New and emerging environmental hazards and situations

28 Global disasters and risk reduction strategies

29 Sustainability

Appendices

Appendix 1: SIMCARDs for dealing with infectious diseases.

Appendix 1.1 Concise SIMCARDs providing information on infections with public health significance in the UK

Appendix 1.2 Abridged SIMCARDs providing information on less common infections with potential public health significance in the UK

Appendix 1.3 Brief SIMCARDs providing basic information on relatively rare infections with low public health significance in the UK

Appendix 2: SIMCARDs for dealing with emergency situations

Appendix 3: SIMCARDs for dealing with environmental hazards and situations

Appendix 4: Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010: Notifiable Diseases

Appendix 5: The reporting of causative agents from local laboratory to local health protection team (PHE)

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-106265-0

0-19-180751-6

OCLC:

961910509