Title Global pandemics and epidemics and how they relate to you / [Angela L. Williams, managing editor]

Edition First edition Published Detroit, MI . Omnigraphics, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 497 pages) : illustrations Series Health reference series : special edition Health reference series. Contents Part 1. Understanding Pandemics and Epidemics -- Part 2. Major Pandemics and Epidemics -- Part 3. Principles of Disease Management -- Part 4. The Next Pandemic : Are We Ready? -- Part 5. Additional Help and Information The pandemic threat: why it matters -- Outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics -- Concepts of occurrence, progression, and spectrum of disease -- Chain of infection -- Deadliest outbreaks and pandemics in history -- Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases -- One Health initiative -- Notable pseudopandemics of the last century -- Bioterrorism and the pandemic potential -- HIV/AIDS -- Chikungunya -- Cholera -- Coronaviruses -- Ebola -- Influenza -- Malaria -- Meningitis -- Nipah virus infection -- Smallpox -- Tuberculosis -- Yellow fever -- Zika -- Preventing avoidable epidemics -- Antimicrobial drug resistance and emerging infectious disease -- Hospital-based infections -- Laboratory-guided detection of disease outbreaks -- Disease surveillance -- Role of technology and surveillance systems in public-health response -- Disease control and containment -- Developing interventions -- Pharmacological interventions: medical countermeasures -- Community mitigation interventions -- Getting ahead of the next pandemic -- The 1918 flu pandemic: why it matters 100 years later -- Viruses of special concern -- Getting your household ready for pandemic flu -- The national pandemic strategy -- Strategic stockpiling for the next influenza pandemic -- Global health security: prevent, detect, and respond to global health threats -- A look back at the progress since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- Glossary of terms associated with outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics -- Directory of organizations Summary "Global Pandemics and Epidemics and How They Relate to You provides information about outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics and their related threats." "Offers basic consumer health information about epidemics, pandemics, and notable pseudopandemics over the years and across the world, disease management, including monitoring and planning, and action plan during outbreaks and for future incidents. Along with statistical data, a glossary, and directory of organizations"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2020) Subject Epidemics -- United States Epidemiology -- United States Epidemics. Epidemiology. Pandemics. Pandemics Epidemics Epidemiology epidemics. pandemics. Epidemics Epidemiology United States Form Electronic book Author Williams, Angela, 1963- editor. LC no. 2019051761 ISBN 9780780818170 0780818172

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