Book description
Health protection professionals need rapid access to authoritative and
easy-to-use information to ensure their actions are based on
international best practice. This is precisely what the
Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook
does. This concise and practical handbook is an essential guide for all
those who have responsibility for the identification and control of
infectious disease.
In the past five years, there have been many
major changes in health protection practice, and significant
scientific progress in the field, all of which are reflected in this
new edition of the popular Communicable Disease Control and Health
Protection Handbook. All chapters have been updated in line with
recent changes in epidemiology, new guidelines for control and
administrative changes. Basic principles of communicable disease
control and health protection, major syndromes, control of individual
infections, main services and activities, organizational arrangements
for all EU countries and sources of further information are covered. A
new chapter on pandemic planning has been included, and the influenza
chapter has been expanded to cover seasonal, avian and pandemic flu.
Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook is
an indispensible companion for all those who are engaged in health
protection, including public health physicians, epidemiologists,
infection control nurses, microbiologists and trainees in the field.
Jeremy Hawker is Regional Epidemiologist for the
Health Protection Agency, West Midlands; Registrar of the UK Faculty
of Public Health, UK
Norman Begg is Chief Medical Officer, GlaxoSmithKline
Biologicals, Wavre, Belgium
Iain Blair is Associate Professor, Department of Community
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab
Emirates University
Ralf Reintjes is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Surveillance, Hamburg, Germany; Adjunct Professor of Infectious
Disease Epidemiology, Tampere, Finland
Julius Weinberg is Vice Chancellor, Kingston University,
London, UK
Professor Karl Ekdahl is Head of Public Health Capacity and
Communication Unit, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
(ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
