A skill which refers to an individual's ability
to monitor his/her susceptibility to common
communicable diseases.
Answers
Answer:
Self-Monitoring Skills
Answer:
Organized public health emerged out of the sanitation movement of the mid-nineteenth century, which sought to reduce the environmental and social factors in communicable disease (Box 4.2 ). Traditionally, the prevention and control of communicable diseases have been accomplished by sanitation, safe water and food supply, isolation, and immunization.
BOX 4.2
Communicable Disease
A communicable disease is an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal, or inanimate reservoir to a susceptible host. Transmission may be direct from person to person, or indirect through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment.
Source: Heymann DL, editor. Control of communicable diseases manual. 19th ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association; 2008.
The potential for infectious disease to disturb or destroy human life still exists today, especially in low-income countries, but can also pose serious challenges in the high-income countries.