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Communicable Medical Diseases: A holistic and social medicine perspective for healthcare providers

Communicable Medical Diseases: A holistic and social medicine perspective for healthcare providers

Paperback

Health GeneralMedical Reference

ISBN10: 1452587728
ISBN13: 9781452587721
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Dec 23 2014
Pages: 682
Weight: 3.32
Height: 1.37 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Although communicable infections have been known to man since the dawn of time, outbreaks of communicable infections still occur regularly. Known and unknown communicable infections continue to emerge and re-emerge due to factors such as drug-resistant microbes, the over-use of antimicrobial drugs, and many others. Many changes in society have weakened healthcare systems while enhancing the effects of poverty and malnutrition. Although the mortality rate has declined over the last 150 years, communicable diseases remain the biggest killer worldwide, increasing at an alarming rate. If existing control measures are to be relaxed and microbes mutate further to super bugs resistant to modern antimicrobial drugs, the possibility that communicable infections could assume the magnitude of wide-spread epidemics and/or pandemics is greatly heightened.

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