HPE 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Case Fatality Rate, Sub-Saharan Africa, Merca
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Global health chapter 12 communicable diseases = on final. Cause 31% of deaths and 40% of dalys in low and middle-income countries. Much of the burden of communicable diseases is avoidable, and can be treated. Communicable disease-transmission - animal to animal, animal to human, or human to human. Case fatality rate - proportion of persons with a particular case who die from that condition. Control (disease control) - reducing the incidence and prevalence of a disease to an acceptable level. Elimination - reducing the incidence of disease, close to 0. Eradication - termination of all cases of disease and its transmission globally. Parasite - organism that lives in or on another organism and takes it nourishment from that organism. Vaccination, chemotherapy, vector control, improved water and sanitation (helminths), improved care seeking and disease recognition, case management (treatment), case surveillance, behavioral change.
