Component 1; Unit 8: Public Health, Part 2
Description:
This unit provides an overview of public health topics, including: important communicable diseases and public health responses; terrorism, including biological, agricultural, and chemical surveillance; and chronic diseases and environmental health.
Objectives:
- Give examples of and explain the general program categories of public health, including communicable disease, chronic disease, terrorism response, and environmental public health.
- Discuss the activities and achievements of public health in the realm of communicable disease.
- Compare and contrast the different types of terrorism and the different public health responses.
- Describe chronic disease activities and achievements of public health, and the work of public health in the realm of environmental health hazards.
Component 1; Unit 8; Lecture 8a comp1_unit8a_lecture_slides
Public Health and Communicable Disease (09:46)
Component 1; Unit 8; Lecture 8b Comp1_Unit8b_lecture_slides
Bioterrorism, Agricultural Terrorism, Chemical Terrorism, Nuclear Terrorism (09:01)
Component 1; Unit 8; Lecture 8c Comp1_Unit8c_lecture_slides
Public Health and Chronic Disease (07:24)
Suggested Readings
Hawker, Jeremy., and Wiley InterScience. Communicable Disease Control Handbook. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2005. Print.