Unusual Communicable Diseases: Systematic Approach to Management

A public health ethics approach to non-communicable diseases.

Although bioethicists have written about public health problems for many decades (e.g., Faden and Faden 1978; Bayer and Moreno 1986), public health ethics as a distinct field is not much older than the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (JBI) itself. Around 2000, there was a rapid increase in the number of ethicists writing about public health problems (e.g., Kass 2001; Upshur 2002) as well as engag...

Communicable Diseases

Diseases of Animals Communicable to Man *

IN this paper I propose to deal with some of the diseases of animals which are communicable to man, to discuss some of the analogies and differences shown in these diseases, and the way in which they affect the different species. A study of the different ways in which a disease affects man with his highly developed thinking powers, and the various species of animals which have no thought for th...

Combating non-communicable diseases.

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WHO EMRO | Communicable diseases

The incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases continues to escalate: half the countries in the Region reported a high incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in 2015. WHO responded to an increasing number of outbreaks. These included influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 in Libya, Kuwait and Jordan; avian influenza A (H5N1) in Egypt; MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; chol...