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SECTION TWO: Vital Statistics and Rates and Ratios Used in Epidemiology

39-56

 

Chapter 4: Vital Statistics and Morbidity Rates and Ratios

39

 

What are Vital Statistics?

39

Categories of Rates and Ratios

40

Morbidity Rates and Ratios (10)

41

Questions for Review and Discussion

47

 

Chapter 5: Mortality Rates and Ratios (17)

48

 

Questions for Review and Discussion

55

 

Sectional Bibliography

56

 

SECTION THREE: Principles of Immunization

57-74

 

What is immunization?

58

Definition of Related Terms

58

Types of Immunity and Their Relationships to Host Resistance

59

Individual of Immunity Versus Herd Immunity

60

Calculating Percent Covered

60

Hints for the Storage of Vaccines

60

Damage to Vaccines

61

World Health Organization Expanded Program on Immunization

61

Vaccination Precaution for Parents

62

Legal Stipulations Related to Vaccinations

63

School Attendance and State Immunization Laws

64

Questions for Review and Discussion

66

 

Chapter 7: Practice of Immunization

66

 

International Schedule of Vaccinations

66

Contraindications and Common Relations to Some Vaccines

67

The Responsibilities of Health Educators in a Community Immunization Program

68

Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases for Health Care Professionals

70

Pre-exposure Hepatitis B Immunization

71

Implications of Immunization Practice for Comprehensive Health Education

72

Immunization Schedule for Babies in the USA

72

Questions for Review and Discussion

73

 

Sectional Bibliography

74

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