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2023
Chapter 5 looks at defining communicable diseases and understanding and the impact on both animal and human health and how vital it is for veterinary nurses. This chapter does this in a clear and systematic way. It considers both emerging communicable diseases (such as COVID-19) and re-emerging diseases that reappear after a period of absence and the ...
Barker, Emi N., Costa, Marta
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Chapter 5 looks at defining communicable diseases and understanding and the impact on both animal and human health and how vital it is for veterinary nurses. This chapter does this in a clear and systematic way. It considers both emerging communicable diseases (such as COVID-19) and re-emerging diseases that reappear after a period of absence and the ...
Barker, Emi N., Costa, Marta
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On the Communicability of Chronic Diseases
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018The World Health Organization now classifies chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, as noncommunicable.
Ryan T. Demmer, Jeremiah A. Barondess
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THE REPORTING OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
American Journal of Epidemiology, 1977Surveillance of communicable diseases in the United States depends on the reporting of cases by primary physicians. It is widely recognized, however, that significant numbers of such cases are not reported. Reporting rates for many communicable diseases have never been determined.
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Diseases communicable to humans
New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 1982Abstract Extract Sir:- At the instigation of the Animal Health Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Department of Health has reviewed the need for veterinary surgeons and persons in charge of laboratories to continue to notify the medical officer of health of any animal found to be suffering from any of a specified list of diseases ...
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Disease Patterns: Communicable and Non-communicable
2019The patterns of infectious and chronic diseases are discussed in this chapter. Drawing on the concept of the double burden of disease, a deliberation on the trends of communicable and noncommunicable diseases in the developing world is undertaken. A detailed portrait of the prevalence of these diseases in Ghana and Uganda is presented using secondary ...
Janice Desire Busingye +1 more
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Communicable Diseases of Children
1994The communicable diseases of childhood are a source of significant disruption for the family and a particular challenge to the family physician. Although most of these illnesses are self-limited and without significant sequelae, the socioeconomic impact due to time lost from school (and work), costs of medical visits and remedies, and parental anxiety ...
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2018
Communicable diseases represent a major global public health threat. In fact, owing to the globalisation of travel and trade, these diseases cross borders at an unprecedented rate and multiply exposure and mutual vulnerability of people around the globe.
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Communicable diseases represent a major global public health threat. In fact, owing to the globalisation of travel and trade, these diseases cross borders at an unprecedented rate and multiply exposure and mutual vulnerability of people around the globe.
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Communicable Diseases for Nurses
The American Journal of Nursing, 1933Albert G. Bower +2 more
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Communicable disease epidemics
2013After reading this chapter you should be able to: define the terms ‘communicable disease’, ‘epidemic’, and ‘outbreak’; explain the principles of preventing communicable disease; explain the key features of different types of outbreaks or epidemics; understand the key steps in investigating an outbreak or epidemic.
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