Open Source Educational Initiatives to Improve Awareness of Rabies Prevention

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Peter Costa ◽  
Deborah J. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
Rabies Control ◽  
Daily Risk ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
World Rabies Day ◽  
Rabies Prevention

Rabies is the deadliest infectious disease known to humans and animals and yet is almost always preventable even after an exposure has occurred. The lack of educational awareness is a major reason why over 55,000 people die of the disease every year. The Global Alliance for Rabies Control, in association with international partners in the field of public health, initiated new educational initiatives aimed at increasing global awareness for those living at daily risk of exposure to rabies. Three of the open source educational initiatives are described in this chapter, including: World Rabies Day; the establishment of a freely accessible scientifically accurate education bank; and hosting global webinars that connect public health experts interested in reducing the burden of rabies in their regions.

Open Source Educational Initiatives to Improve Awareness of Rabies Prevention

2013 ◽  
pp. 176-192
Author(s):  
Peter Costa ◽  
Deborah J. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
Rabies Control ◽  
Daily Risk ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
World Rabies Day ◽  
Rabies Prevention

Rabies is the deadliest infectious disease known to humans and animals and yet is almost always preventable even after an exposure has occurred. The lack of educational awareness is a major reason why over 55,000 people die of the disease every year. The Global Alliance for Rabies Control, in association with international partners in the field of public health, initiated new educational initiatives aimed at increasing global awareness for those living at daily risk of exposure to rabies. Three of the open source educational initiatives are described in this chapter, including: World Rabies Day; the establishment of a freely accessible scientifically accurate education bank; and hosting global webinars that connect public health experts interested in reducing the burden of rabies in their regions.

scholarly journals First World Rabies Day, 8 September 2007

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
S De Martin
Keyword(s):  
Animal Health ◽  
Human Rabies ◽  
International Level ◽  
Rabies Control ◽  
First World ◽  
World Rabies Day ◽  
Rabies Prevention

World Rabies Day will be inaugurated on 8 September 2007. This initiative involves human and animal health partners from local to international level with the goal of supporting human rabies prevention and animal rabies control through awareness and resources.

Perchlorate Contamination as a Public Health Hazard: Bioremediation Methods to Reduce Risk of Exposure

2012 ◽  
Vol 138 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A138-A138
Author(s):  
Terry Ann Else ◽  
Sanjana Iddyadinesh ◽  
Justine Suba ◽  
Jacimaria Batista ◽  
Penny Amy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
Reduce Risk

scholarly journals Epidemiology of Lyme Disease

1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
Dennis J White
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lyme Disease ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Vector Species ◽  
Potential Vector ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Laboratory Services ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Surveillance Programs ◽  
Risk Of Exposure

Investigation of the epidemiology of Lyme disease depends upon information generated from several sources. Human disease surveillance can be conducted by both passive and active means involving physicians, public health agencies and laboratories. Passive and active tick surveillance programs can document the extent of tick-borne activity, identify the geographic range of potential vector species, and determine the relative risk of exposure to Lyme disease in specific areas. Standardized laboratory services can play an important role in providing data. Epidemiologists can gain a better understanding of Lyme disease through the collection of data from such programs. The interpretation of data and provision of information to the medical and general communities are important functions of public health agencies.

Revolution in rabies prevention: a public health perspective

1984 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
L.Y. Altmayer ◽  
C.V. Trimarchi ◽  
N.B. Schell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Rabies Prevention

Assessment of occupational exposure to leptospirosis in a sheep-only abattoir

2010 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
pp. 797-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. DORJEE ◽  
C. HEUER ◽  
R. JACKSON ◽  
D. M. WEST ◽  
J. M. COLLINS-EMERSON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Occupational Exposure ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Risk Modelling ◽  
Spreadsheet Model ◽  
Risk Period ◽  
Daily Risk ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
Stochastic Risk

SUMMARYThis study estimated the frequency of exposure of meat workers to carcasses infected with Leptospira serovars Hardjobovis or Pomona in a sheep-only abattoir in New Zealand. A stochastic spreadsheet model was developed to assess the daily risk of exposure of eviscerators, meat inspectors and offal handlers to live leptospires in sheep carcasses from May to November 2004 (high-risk period), and from December 2004 to June 2005 (low-risk period). The average sheep processed per day were 225 for an eviscerator, 374 for a meat inspector, and 1123 for an offal handler. The median daily exposures during high- and low-risk periods were 11 [95% distribution interval (DI) 5–19] and three (95% DI 1–8) infected carcasses/day for eviscerators, 18 (95% DI 9–29) and six (95% DI 2–12) for meat inspectors, and 54 (95% DI 32–83) and 18 (95% DI 8–31) for offal handlers, respectively. Stochastic risk modelling provided evidence that processing of sheep carcasses exposed meat workers regularly to live leptospires with substantial seasonal variation.

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