180402P - INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY 6: Communicable Diseases

A course for staff of the Global Center for Mass Medicine at the Ministry of Health by Dr Omar Hasan Kasule MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology at King Fahad Medical City Riyadh

6.1 CONCEPTS

6.1.1 Epidemiological Characterization

6.1.2 The Agent: Micro-Organism

6.1.3 The Host

6.1.4 The Disease

6.1.5 Control and Prevention of Communicable Disease

6.2 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES BY VIRUSES

6.2.1 Viral Infections: Feco-Oral

6.2.2 Viral Infections: Air-Borne

6.2.3 Viral Infections: Vector-Borne

6.2.4 Viral Infections: Parenteral

6.2.5 Viral Infections: Others

6.3 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES BY PROKARYOTES

6.3.1 Bacteria Infections: Feco-Oral

6.3.2 Bacterial Infections: Droplet Spread

6.3.3 Bacterial Infections: Sexually Transmitted

6.3.4 Bacterial Infections: Others

6.3.5 Chlamydial & Rickettsial Infections

6.4 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES BY EUKARYOTES

6.4.1 Protozoal Infections

6.4.2 Helminthic Infestations

6.4.3 Fungal Infections

6.5 EMERGING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

6.5.1 Over-view

6.5.2 Sexually Transmitted Diseases

6.5.3 Viral Diseases

6.5.4 Bacterial Diseases

6.5.5 Parasitic Diseases: