A practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection. It is aimed at individuals training in health protection and public health including those with a non-specialist background.
Dr Ghebrehewet is Director of Health Protection in Cheshire and Merseyside, UK. He graduated from medical school in Ethiopia, where he worked as a GP and Regional Director of Public Health Programmes. Dr Ghebrehewet has extensive experience in communicable disease control and health protection, with specialist interests in immunisation, Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) and environmental public health practice. He has published widely, presented at regional, national and international conferences and is the lead for Health Protection in the Masters of Public Health at the University of Liverpool and lead public health trainer in Cheshire & Merseyside. Dr Stewart is a Glaswegian born, bred and educated. Following a successful career of around 20 years in the northern mountains of Pakistan as a rural GP, Alex returned to the UK where he trained in Public Health in Cheshire and Merseyside. He was a Consultant in Health Protection for eleven years, with special interest in the acute and long-term effects of the environment on health. He has investigated and responded to many complex public health issues, and has developed an understanding of how to support local and national agencies and the public in the face of limited information, incomplete understanding and often great uncertainty. Dr Baxter has been a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control for 20 years, working in the Stockport and Greater Manchester area. Over the last 25 years he has run successfully the UK National Immunisation Conference for Health Care Workers; provided a specialist immunisation clinics at the District General Hospital seeing around 15,000 patients; and led childhood and adult immunisation programmes and training in Stockport. During this time, Dr Baxter contributed to the delivery of a consistently high childhood immunisation uptake rates, and Stockport achieved highest influenza vaccination uptake in pregnant women in the country over the last four years. Dr Baxter has published widely and supervised several PhD theses. Dr Shears is former consultant microbiologist and Director of Infection Control Arrowe Park Wirral University Hospital, with a special interest in the epidemiology and control of health care associated infections. Dr Shears was previously senior lecturer in medical microbiology at Liverpool University/Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with postgraduate teaching responsibilities and public health microbiology projects in Sudan and Bangladesh. He was a member of WHO working groups on antimicrobial resistance, and public health laboratory development. He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed publications, has contributed chapters in several books, and is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Hospital Infection. In the 1980's he was a medical officer in refugee programmes in Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Lebanon. David Conrad is a Consultant in Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council. He holds an honorary research post at the University of Liverpool and has published papers in several peer reviewed journals. In collaboration with colleagues from the Centre for Men's Health at Leeds Metropolitan University, he has edited three books: Men's Health: How To Do It (Radcliffe), Promoting Men's Mental Health (Radcliffe) and Sports-Based Health Interventions: Case Studies from Around the World (Springer). Dr Kliner was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. She graduated from University of Leeds with a degree in Medicine, and a BA in Healthcare Ethics. She has an interested in infectious diseases, and in particular TB and HIV, which developed during clinical training, guideline development work with WHO, and academic work within Good Shepherd Hospital in Swaziland, with the University of Leeds. She currently works as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control in Greater Manchester.
Show moreA practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection. It is aimed at individuals training in health protection and public health including those with a non-specialist background.
Dr Ghebrehewet is Director of Health Protection in Cheshire and Merseyside, UK. He graduated from medical school in Ethiopia, where he worked as a GP and Regional Director of Public Health Programmes. Dr Ghebrehewet has extensive experience in communicable disease control and health protection, with specialist interests in immunisation, Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) and environmental public health practice. He has published widely, presented at regional, national and international conferences and is the lead for Health Protection in the Masters of Public Health at the University of Liverpool and lead public health trainer in Cheshire & Merseyside. Dr Stewart is a Glaswegian born, bred and educated. Following a successful career of around 20 years in the northern mountains of Pakistan as a rural GP, Alex returned to the UK where he trained in Public Health in Cheshire and Merseyside. He was a Consultant in Health Protection for eleven years, with special interest in the acute and long-term effects of the environment on health. He has investigated and responded to many complex public health issues, and has developed an understanding of how to support local and national agencies and the public in the face of limited information, incomplete understanding and often great uncertainty. Dr Baxter has been a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control for 20 years, working in the Stockport and Greater Manchester area. Over the last 25 years he has run successfully the UK National Immunisation Conference for Health Care Workers; provided a specialist immunisation clinics at the District General Hospital seeing around 15,000 patients; and led childhood and adult immunisation programmes and training in Stockport. During this time, Dr Baxter contributed to the delivery of a consistently high childhood immunisation uptake rates, and Stockport achieved highest influenza vaccination uptake in pregnant women in the country over the last four years. Dr Baxter has published widely and supervised several PhD theses. Dr Shears is former consultant microbiologist and Director of Infection Control Arrowe Park Wirral University Hospital, with a special interest in the epidemiology and control of health care associated infections. Dr Shears was previously senior lecturer in medical microbiology at Liverpool University/Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with postgraduate teaching responsibilities and public health microbiology projects in Sudan and Bangladesh. He was a member of WHO working groups on antimicrobial resistance, and public health laboratory development. He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed publications, has contributed chapters in several books, and is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Hospital Infection. In the 1980's he was a medical officer in refugee programmes in Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Lebanon. David Conrad is a Consultant in Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council. He holds an honorary research post at the University of Liverpool and has published papers in several peer reviewed journals. In collaboration with colleagues from the Centre for Men's Health at Leeds Metropolitan University, he has edited three books: Men's Health: How To Do It (Radcliffe), Promoting Men's Mental Health (Radcliffe) and Sports-Based Health Interventions: Case Studies from Around the World (Springer). Dr Kliner was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. She graduated from University of Leeds with a degree in Medicine, and a BA in Healthcare Ethics. She has an interested in infectious diseases, and in particular TB and HIV, which developed during clinical training, guideline development work with WHO, and academic work within Good Shepherd Hospital in Swaziland, with the University of Leeds. She currently works as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control in Greater Manchester.
Show morePrelims
Section 1: The basics
1: Sam Ghebrehewet, Alex G. Stewart, and Ian Rufus: What is health
protection?
2: Sam Ghebrehewet and Alex G. Stewart: Who is involved in health
protection?
3: Sam Ghebrehewet, Alex G. Stewart, and Ian Rufus: Key principles
of health protection
4: Paul Shears and Dave Harvey: The basics of microbiology
Section 2: Infectious disease control case studies and
scenarios
5: Ken Lamden, Sam Rowell, and Andrew Fox: E. Coli O157
6: Rita Huyton, Sam Ghebrehewet, and David Baxter: Hepatitis B
7: Dave Harvey and Andrea Ledgerton: Hospital multi-resistant
infections
8: Joanna Cartwright, Anjila Shah, and Sam Ghebrehewet:
Influenza
9: Nick Phin, Falguni Naik, Elaine Stanford , and Sam Ghebrehewet:
Legionnaire s disease
10: David Baxter, Gill Marsh, and Sam Ghebrehewet: Measles
11: Sam Ghebrehewet, David Conrad, and Gill Marsh: Meningitis and
meningococcal disease
12: Musarrat Afza, Marko Petrovic, and Sam Ghebrehewet:
Tuberculosis (TB)
Section 3: Emergency dreparedness, resilience and response (EPRR),
and business continuity case studies and scenarios
13: Alex G. Stewart, Sam Ghebrehewet, and David Baxter: Business
continuity: Hospital ward closures due to norovirus
14: Laura Mitchem, Henrietta Harrison, and Alex G. Stewart: Fire
and fear: Immediate and long term health aspects
15: Angie Bone, Alan Wilton, and Alex G. Stewart: Flooding and
health: Immediate and long term implications
Section 4: Environmental Public Health practice case studies and
scenarios
16: John Reid, Giovanni Leonardi, and Alex G. Stewart: Air
pollution and respiratory diseases
17: Alex G. Stewart, Sam Ghebrehewet, and Richard Jarvis: Cancer
and chronic disease cluster
Section 5: Health protection tools
18: Paul Shears, Andrea Ledgerton, and Rita Huyton: Hospital and
community infection control
19: David Baxter, Sam Ghebrehewet, and Gill Marsh: Vaccination and
immunisation
20: Sam Ghebrehewet and Alex G. Stewart: Incident and outbreaks
management
21: Roberto Vivancos, Giovanni Leonardi, and Alex Elliott: Health
protection surveillance
22: Paul Cleary, Sam Ghebrehewet, and David Baxter: Essential
statistics and epidemiology
23: Sam Ghebrehewet, Paul Cleary, Merav Kliner, and Ewan Wilkinson:
Conducting epidemiological and analytical studies
24: Merav Kliner, Ewan Wilkinson, and Sam Ghebrehewet: Using
evidence to guide practice in health protection
25: Amal Rushdy and Sam Ghebrehewet: Quality assurance and
audit
Section 6: New and emerging health protection issues
26: Alex G. Stewart, Sam Ghebrehewet, and Peter MacPherson: New and
emerging infectious diseases
27: Alex Dobney and Greg Hodgson: New and emerging environmental
hazards / situations
28: Virginia Murray, Amina Aitsi-Selmi, and Alex G. Stewart: Global
disasters and risk reduction strategies
29: Richard Jarvis, Angie Bone, and Alex G. Stewart:
Sustainability
Appendices
Appendix 1: SIMCARDs for dealing with common infectious
diseases
Appendix 2: Abridged SIMCARDs for dealing with infectious
diseases
Appendix 3: Brief SIMCARDs for dealing with infectious diseases
Appendix 4: SIMCARDs for dealing with emergency
situations/hazards
Appendix 5: SIMCARDs for dealing with environmental
hazards/situations
Appendix 6: Health Protection legislation (England) guidance 2010:
Notifiable diseases
Appendix 7: The reporting of causative agents from local laboratory
to local health protection team (PHE)
Appendix 8: Vaccine recommendations following case(s) of probable
or confirmed invasive meningococcal disease
Appendix 9: Template agenda for health protection incident and
outbreak meetings
Appendix 10: The health background to statutory pollutant controls
within the UK and Europe
Glossary
Index
Dr Ghebrehewet is Director of Health Protection in Cheshire and
Merseyside, UK. He graduated from medical school in Ethiopia, where
he worked as a GP and Regional Director of Public Health
Programmes. Dr Ghebrehewet has extensive experience in communicable
disease control and health protection, with specialist interests in
immunisation, Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR)
and environmental public health practice. He has published widely,
presented
at regional, national and international conferences and is the lead
for Health Protection in the Masters of Public Health at the
University of Liverpool and lead public health trainer in Cheshire
&
Merseyside.
Dr Stewart is a Glaswegian born, bred and educated. Following a
successful career of around 20 years in the northern mountains of
Pakistan as a rural GP, Alex returned to the UK where he trained in
Public Health in Cheshire and Merseyside. He was a Consultant in
Health Protection for eleven years, with special interest in the
acute and long-term effects of the environment on health. He has
investigated and responded to many complex public health issues,
and has developed an understanding of how
to support local and national agencies and the public in the face
of limited information, incomplete understanding and often great
uncertainty. Dr Baxter has been a Consultant in Communicable
Disease
Control for 20 years, working in the Stockport and Greater
Manchester area. Over the last 25 years he has run successfully the
UK National Immunisation Conference for Health Care Workers;
provided a specialist immunisation clinics at the District General
Hospital seeing around 15,000 patients; and led childhood and adult
immunisation programmes and training in Stockport. During this
time, Dr Baxter contributed to the delivery of a consistently high
childhood immunisation uptake rates, and
Stockport achieved highest influenza vaccination uptake in pregnant
women in the country over the last four years. Dr Baxter has
published widely and supervised several PhD theses.
Dr Shears is former consultant microbiologist and Director of
Infection Control Arrowe Park Wirral University Hospital, with a
special interest in the epidemiology and control of health care
associated infections. Dr Shears was previously senior lecturer in
medical microbiology at Liverpool University/Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine, with postgraduate teaching responsibilities and
public health microbiology projects in Sudan and Bangladesh. He was
a member of WHO working groups on
antimicrobial resistance, and public health laboratory development.
He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed publications, has
contributed chapters in several books, and is an Assistant Editor
of the Journal
of Hospital Infection. In the 1980's he was a medical officer in
refugee programmes in Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Lebanon.
David Conrad is a Consultant in Public Health at Hertfordshire
County Council. He holds an honorary research post at the
University of Liverpool and has published papers in several peer
reviewed journals. In collaboration with colleagues from the Centre
for Men's Health at Leeds Metropolitan University, he has edited
three books: Men's Health: How To Do It (Radcliffe), Promoting
Men's Mental Health (Radcliffe) and Sports-Based Health
Interventions: Case Studies from Around the World (Springer).
Dr Kliner was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. She graduated
from University of Leeds with a degree in Medicine, and a BA in
Healthcare Ethics. She has an interested in infectious diseases,
and in particular TB and HIV, which developed during clinical
training, guideline development work with WHO, and academic work
within Good Shepherd Hospital in Swaziland, with the University of
Leeds. She currently works as a Consultant in Communicable Disease
Control in Greater Manchester.
Overall, I would recommend [Health Protection: Principles and
Practice] as an introduction, easy refresher and handy quick
reference.
*Anil Adisesh, Occupational Medicine*
Health Protection: Principles and Practice is likely to be of value
to a wider, global audience because of its all-hazards scope: it
covers communicable disease surveillance/control, emergency
preparedness, resilience and response, and environmental public
health activities that in many countries are the responsibility of
different organisations.
*Health Protection Report, Public Health England*
This book is easy both to read and to use as a day-to-day
reference. Use of sub-sections and bullet points makes it easy for
the reader to quickly locate the desired information. In many
chapters scenarios are used to put the reader into real life
situations. I think that these would be particularly valuable as a
teaching aid for trainees, but they are relevant to all
readers.
*Philip Milner, Journal of Hospital Infection*
The book contains useful case studies on dealing with outbreaks and
more than a hundred health protection checklists crossing the gamut
of injections disease from avian influenza to viral haemorrhagic
fevers. It would be more than worth its price for these alone.
*William Hatchett, Environmental Health News*
This book was really well thought out. To an impressive degree,
because many textbooks are dense, wordy, appealing to an enthusiast
for the subject, but a slog for non-experts. By contrast, this one
seems designed precisely to meet all the needs of someone on their
first day in a health protection job, worried they will be faced
with a really difficult scenario.
*Andy Beckingham, Public Health Today*
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