CONTENTS IN BRIEF

SECTION ONE:        Basic Principles of Epidemiology

 

Chapter 1:        Defining and Clarifying Epidemiological Terms

Chapter 2:        Infectious Diseases: Theories, Process, and Epidemiological Studies

Chapter 3:        Classification and Prevention of Infectious Diseases

 

SECTION TWO:       Vital statistics and rates and Rations Used in Epidemiology

 

Chapter 4:        Vital Statistics and Morbidity Rates and Ratios

Chapter 5:        Mortality Rates and Ratios

 

SECTION THREE:   Principles and Practices of Immunization

 

Chapter 6:        Principles of Immunization

Chapter 7:        Practice of Immunization

 

SECTION FOUR:     Viruses and Viral Infectious Diseases

 

Chapter 8:        Overview of viruses

Chapter 9:        Viral Infectious diseases transmitted through contact

Chapter 10:      Viral Infectious diseases transmitted through the air and Respiratory tract

Chapter 11:      Viral Infectious diseases transmitted through interaction between animals and humans or though mosquito and insect bites

 

SECTION FIVE:       Bacteria and Bacterial Infectious Diseases

 

Chapter 12:      Overview of bacteria

Chapter 13:      Bacterial infectious diseases transmitted through contact or the Respiratory tract

Chapter 14:      Bacterial infectious diseases transmitted through the oro-gastrointestinal tract

Chapter 15:      Bacterial infectious diseases transmitted through interaction between animals and humans or through mosquito and insect bites

 

SECTION SIX:          Some Infectious Diseases Caused by Fungi, Protozoa, and Metazoa

 

Chapter 16:      Overview of Fungi, Protozoa, and Metazoa

Chapter 17:      Fungal, Protozoal, or Metazoal infectious diseases transmitted through the skin and respiratory system.

Chapter 18:      Fungal or Protozoal, or Metazoal infectious diseases transmitted through the oro-gastrointestinal tract.

Chapter 19:      Fungal or Protozoal, or Metazoal infectious diseases transmitted through interaction between animals and humans, or through mosquito and insect bites

 

SECTION SEVEN:   Major Sexually Transmissible Diseases (STDs)

 

Chapter 20:      Major Sexually Transmissible Diseases

Chapter 21:      Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

 

SECTION EIGHT:     Global Distribution of Infectious Diseases; World Health Organization Report on Infectious Diseases, 2000

 

Chapter 22:      Distribution of Infectious Diseases in the United States of America

Chapter 23:      Distribution of Infectious Diseases in the World

Chapter 24:      World Health Organization Report in Infectious Diseases, 2000

 

SECTION NINE:        The Multicultural Model for Community Health Education and for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases

 

Chapter 25:      The Multicultural Model for Community Health Education

 

 

APPENDICES

 

 

Subject Index