Public Health Control

Ectoparasite Control in Public Health

Malaria Control and Public Health

3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Updated interim U.S. case definition for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). [cited 2003 Sep 26]. Hung IF, Poon LL, et al. Clinical progression and viral load in a community outbreak of coronavirus-associated SARS pneumonia: a prospective study. Evaluation of reverse transcription–PCR assays for rapid diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syn...

Public Health and tobacco control in Brazil.

According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), smoking accounts for 5 million deaths annually and may reach 10 million a year in the next 15 years if nothing is done to prevent the expansion of tobacco consumption, currently concentrated in the developing countries. This scenario led 190 countries to propose, during the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1999, the negotiation of the...

Public health aspects of weight control.

ed from Table 2, page 425, Dublin, Louis I., and Spiegelman, Mortimer. Factors in the Higher Mortality of Our Older Age Groups. A.J.P.H. 42, 4: 422–429 (Apr.), 1952. Consultant, President’s Commission on Health Needs of the Nation. 1 Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Branch, American Public Health Association, Denver, Colo., June 6, 1952. First published American Journal of Public ...

Zoonoses control and veterinary public health.

Because animals are essential in the life cycles of zoonoses, veterinary public health is necessary in the control of such diseases. A review of different operational phases of zoonoses control is presented, including surveillance, control in animals, control of vectors and vehicles, prevention in man and strategy selection. A practical scheme for zoonoses control is proposed along with its dif...