Control of Communicable Diseases in Man

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-152
Author(s):  
SAMUEL L. KATZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Communicable Disease Control ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Health Association ◽  
Harvard School

That a volume achieves its tenth edition and its fiftieth anniversary may be accepted as highly suggestive evidence of its value and popularity. A brief, or more leisurely, reading of the 1965 version of this handbook quickly convinces one of the great service rendered its readers by the editors. Dr. John E. Gordon, Emeritus Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and his Committee on Communicable Disease Control of the American Public Health Association present succinctly and lucidly the pertinent and current material in more than one hundred fifty infectious diseases, in a paperback pocket-size book.

Health protection

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 725-730
Author(s):  
Emily Stanton ◽  
Anita Bell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Communicable Disease Control

Health protection is a key function of Public Health England, encompassing emergency preparedness, resilience and response, environmental health, and communicable disease control. The aim of this article is to discuss the role of health protection, its structure in England, and how GPs are integral to the reporting, surveillance and actions to protect public health. Case studies are included. Finally, the article will highlight knowledge that GPs will find useful when considering notifiable infectious diseases and the role of GP and health protection in the NHS Long Term Plan.

Communicable Disease and Mental Health: Restrictions of the Person

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 381-403
Author(s):  
Frank P. Grad
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Health Law ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Health Control ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
Health Association

AbstractLaws for the protection of public health control either the environment, as in the case of sanitation or air pollution regulations, or human conduct. This Article deals with limitations imposed upon individuals in order to prevent the spread of communicable disease and the harm resulting from mental illness. The restraints discussed include compulsory examination and immunization, and forms of compulsory detention or commitment.This Article is a revised chapter of the author's Public Health Law Manual, first published by the American Public Health Association in 1965. The Manual is intended to help public health professionals to understand the law relevant to their practice, and to apply it more effectively.

Hospital Isolation and Precaution Guidelines

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-673
Author(s):  
Pierce Gardner ◽  
Sylvia Breton ◽  
Diana G. Carles
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
Isolation Techniques ◽  
Health Association

Infections acquired in hospitals have been recognized as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality since before the era of Semmelweis and Lister. Hospital isolation and precaution procedures have evolved along highly individualistic lines depending on the facilities, patient population and the degree of concern regarding nosocomial infections at a particular hospital. In recent years, a number of valuable manuals which offer details of isolation and precaution techniques as well as recommendations for the hospital control of particular infectious diseases have become available. These include: 1. Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare: Isolation Techniques Used in Hospitals. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970. 2. Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, ed. 16. Evanston, Illinois: American Academy of Pediatrics, 1970. 3. Infection Control in the Hospital, ed. 2. Chicago: American Hospital Association, 1970. 4. Benenson, A. S. (ed.): Control of Communicable Diseases in Man, ed. 11. New York: American Public Health Association, 1970. 5. Top, F. H. (ed.): Control of Infectious Diseases in General Hospitals. New York: American Public Health Association, 1967. In an attempt to synthesize these recommendations into a more easily utilized form, the following alphabetical listing of diseases and conditions has been developed by members of the Infections Control Committee at the Children's Hospital Medical Center. It should be stressed that these are guidelines based on current understanding of the natural history and epidemiology of certain infections. In our hospital, modifications are frequently necessary due to heavy demand for the limited isolation facilities.

Infectious Disease in Child Day Care: An Overview

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 987-990
Author(s):  
Michael T. Osterholm
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Health Science ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Child Day Care ◽  
Health Association ◽  
Care Health

In the early 1980s, the Minnesota Department of Health began to address the growing concern of the risk of infectious diseases in child day care by initiating a planning process that resulted in the first national symposium on infectious diseases in child day care. That symposium, which was held in June 1984 in Minneapolis, highlighted the fact that different vocabularies and points of reference would need to be bridged if day-care providers and regulators, clinicians, and public health practitioners are to work side-by-side in defining the risk of infectious diseases in day care and in developing appropriate prevention strategies.1 As a result of this meeting, the Minnesota Public Health Association submitted a resolution to the American Public Health Association (APHA) in the fall of 1984, stating that child-care standards, especially in the area of prevention of infectious diseases, were needed. This resolution, together with a simultaneous recommendation from the APHA's Maternal and Child Health Section for the development of health and safety standards for out-of-home child-care facilities, began a process which eventually led to the monumental effort now known as the American Public Health Association/American Academy of Pediatrics, National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs.2 In June, 1992, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored the "International Conference on Child Day Care Health: Science, Prevention and Practice," a historic meeting bringing together concerned individuals from many disciplines to further define and set the future agenda for the science, prevention and practice of child day-care health.

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