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10 - Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control

from Part 1 - The Public Health Toolkit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2023

By
Beverley Griggs  and
Padmanabhan Badrinath
Edited by
Kirsteen Watson ,
Jan Yates  and
Stephen Gillam
Kirsteen Watson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Jan Yates
Affiliation:
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Stephen Gillam
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

Health protection refers to threats to health such as infectious diseases, environmental threats, natural hazards and threats from terrorist acts. Health protection may also overlap with action, tackling the determinants of health, especially legislative aspects such as workplace smoking bans or speed restrictions and even lifestyle choices and the health issues of ageing populations, such as increasing levels of chronic disease (which we now know may also be due to infections).

This chapter outlines the public health aspects of communicable disease control and touches on some of the other areas now included within health protection in the UK. Important health protection terms are included in the glossary.

Keywords

Health protectioncommunicable diseaseinfectious diseasehazardshosttransmissionvaccinesvaccinationsurveillanceemergency planning and responseCOVID-19health-care acquired infectionspreventionagents
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Essential Public Health
Theory and Practice
 , pp. 183 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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