Dynamics of Communicable Diseases: Prevention and Control

picture_as_pdf Understanding Gender-Based Violence Definitions and examples of gender-based violence, emphasizing power inequities and physical, sexual, or psychological harm. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Vector-Borne Diseases: Vectors and the Pathogens They Transmit, Parasite Groups and Echinococcosis A reading assignment that defines vectors and vector-borne disease and tabulates the diseases by their vector, from Aedes-transmitted chikungunya, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, yellow fever and Zika to the Anopheles malarias and trypanosomiasis. It then groups the pathogens into protozoa, the trematode flukes with their tegument and feeding, the nematode roundworms including Trichuris trichiura and its egg-to-soil transmission, and the cestodes. The closing pages take hydatid disease from Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis through its transmission, the anaphylaxis risk when a cyst ruptures, imaging, the albendazole regimen with paired catheterisation, and prevention. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology This document defines sociology and anthropology, explores their differences, and introduces key concepts and the scientific method used in sociology. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Yellow Fever: Occurrence, Transmission, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Supportive Management and Prevention A communicable disease note on yellow fever as an acute arbovirus infection and a zoonosis of monkeys. It takes the occurrence and the vector, the transmission cycle, the clinical features from the sudden onset with rigors, high fever and a slow pulse to the bleeding tendency, jaundice from liver cell necrosis, nephritis with albuminuria and the coma of severe cases, and the diagnosis on the rising temperature with a low pulse rate, serology for antibodies from the fourth day and virus isolation in the blood in the first four days. Management is supportive because there is no specific drug, with isolation, rest and the measures that stop further transmission. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Communicable Diseases Unit Four: Patterns, Principles and Diseases Grouped by Mode of Transmission A distance-learning unit in eight sections: patterns of communicable disease and principles of control first, then the specific diseases sorted by how they spread. Management detail includes early rehydration in cholera, notification and cholera beds, barrier nursing and disinfection, and the treatment and milk-pasteurisation advice for brucellosis. PDF KES 40.00