Lecture 16: Health protection 1 Flashcards
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What is health protection?
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o Preventing and controlling infectious diseases
o Reducing the adverse effects of chemical, microbiological and radiological hazards
o Preparing for potential or emerging threats
2
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Susceptibility: organism factors
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Dose, virulence and length of exposure time
3
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Susceptability: environmental factors
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social: poverty, emotional stress
Physical: ventilation, overcrowding, hygiene
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Tools for control and investigation?
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Education, immunisation, surveillance and epidemiology, environmental change, the law
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Wjat are surveillance systems?
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detecting and counting cases: notifiable disease?
