Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 327 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Modular texts

Uniform title

1. Modular texts.

Subject

1. Communicable diseases > Epidemiology
2. Communicable diseases > Prevention
3. Communicable Disease Control
4. Communicable Diseases > epidemiology

Contents

1. Elements of communicable diseases -- Communicable disease theory -- Control principles and methods -- Control strategy and organization -- Notification and health regulations -- Classification of communicable diseases -- Diseases of poor hygiene -- Faecal oral diseases -- Food borne diseases -- Diseases of soil contact -- Diseases of water contact -- Skin infections -- Respiratory diseases and other airborne transmitted infections -- Diseases transmitted via body fluids -- Insect borne diseases -- Ectoparasite zoonoses -- Domestic and synanthropic zoonoses -- Pregnancy and infection -- New and emerging diseases -- List of communicable diseases.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Rev. ed. of: Communicable disease epidemiology and control / Roger Webber. 3rd ed. c2009.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.