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DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Page

Acknowledgement

i

Dedication

ii

Foreword

iii

A Message to the World from the Director-General
of the World Health Organization, 2000

v

Preface

vi

About the Author

vii

Contents in Brief

ix

Detailed Table of Contents

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SECTION ONE:  Basic Principles of Epidemiological Terms

2-37

Chapter 1: Defining and Clarifying Epidemiological Terms

2

   

 

Chapter 2:

Infectious Diseases: Theories, Process,
and Epidemiological Studies

13

Theories of disease causation

13

Infectious Disease Model

14

Transmission of Communicable Diseases

15

The Infectious Disease Process

15

Program Planning for Epidemiological Investigations

16

Types of Epidemiological Studies

18

Population Screening and Early Detection of Disease

20

Screening tests

21

Sensitivity Versus Specificity of Screening tests

21

Predictability of a Screening test

22

Question for Review and Discussion

22

 

 

Chapter 3: Classification and Prevention of Infectious Diseases

24

Classification of Infectious Diseases

24

Reasons for the Endemicity of Infectious Diseases in many
Developing Countries

25

Prevention of Infectious Diseases

27

Strategies for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases

28

Ten Ways to Prevent Infectious Diseases

29

General Prevention and Risk Reduction of Zoonoses

30

Reemergence of Infectious Diseases

31

Types of Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

32

World Health Oreganizations Precedure for Reporting
Communicable Diseases

33

Koch's Postulates of Infectious Disease Causation

35

Questions for Review and Discussion

36

   
Sectional Bibliography

37

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