CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
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This measles 'jab' will help prevent this child from the consequences of measles such as pneumonia, malnutrition, blindness and brain disease. Photo:Marko Kokic,Canadian Red Cross
Control of communicable diseases in emergencies
Description
This chapter gives an overview of common and emerging communicable disease threats among displaced populations because of natural and human-made disasters. General and disease-specific strategies for monitoring, preventing and controlling disease outbreaks are discussed.
Learning objectives
To review communicable diseases of public health importance;
To discuss the basic principles for communicable disease control in emergency and post-conflict situations;
To plan a communicable disease control programme for emergency settings;
To discuss simple but effective ways of preventing outbreaks of communicable diseases; To describe how to manage specific disease outbreaks in emergency settings;
To review re-emerging and other diseases that may affect displaced populations;
To discuss how to monitor and evaluate communicable disease control programmes. Key competencies
Identify communicable diseases of public health importance;
Discuss the basic principles for communicable disease control in emergency and post-conflict situations;
Discuss how to design and evaluate disease control programmes;
Describe common disease control strategies including prevention, surveillance and outbreak investigation;
Describe methods for promoting community-based and community-led communicable disease control approaches;
Decide when to scale up and scale down disease control efforts;
Discuss the causes, risk factors, clinical features and management of common diseases; Identify cases with zoonotic diseases and other re-emerging communicable diseases
(such as SARS, bird flu, Ebola
I The Johns Hopkins and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Control of communicable diseases 7
This measles 'jab' will help prevent this child from the consequences of measles such as pneumonia, malnutrition, blindness and brain disease. Photo:Marko Kokic,Canadian Red Cross
Control of communicable diseases in emergencies
Description
This chapter gives an overview of common and emerging communicable disease threats among displaced populations because of natural and human-made disasters. General and disease-specific strategies for monitoring, preventing and controlling disease outbreaks are discussed.
Learning objectives
To review communicable diseases of public health importance;
To discuss the basic principles for communicable disease control in emergency and post-conflict situations;
To plan a communicable disease control programme for emergency settings;
To discuss simple but effective ways of preventing outbreaks of communicable diseases; To describe how to manage specific disease outbreaks in emergency settings;
To review re-emerging and other diseases that may affect displaced populations;
To discuss how to monitor and evaluate communicable disease control programmes. Key competencies
Identify communicable diseases of public health importance;
Discuss the basic principles for communicable disease control in emergency and post-conflict situations;
Discuss how to design and evaluate disease control programmes;
Describe common disease control strategies including prevention, surveillance and outbreak investigation;
Describe methods for promoting community-based and community-led communicable disease control approaches;
Decide when to scale up and scale down disease control efforts;
Discuss the causes, risk factors, clinical features and management of common diseases; Identify cases with zoonotic diseases and other re-emerging communicable diseases
(such as SARS, bird flu, Ebola