Control of Yellow Fever
Subtitle: Field Guide
Publisher: Pan American Health Organization
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9789275127070
Description: This field guide was designed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to offer health workers at different levels of the health care system and different programs in the schools of health sciences the tools to control jungle yellow fever and prevent its reurbanization in the Region of the Americas. It emphasizes clinical and epidemiological aspects of the disease, together with prevention and control strategies. It also offers practical exercises on a clinical case and outbreak for use in training health workers, especially local personnel in enzootic areas. The field guide covers pre.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; About the Immunization Field Guides; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Epidemiology; Chapter 3. Clinical Aspects; Chapter 4. Vaccines; Chapter 5. Vaccination Activities; Chapter 6. Epidemiological Surveillance; Bibliography; Annexes; Annex 1. Differential diagnoses of hemorrhagic fever and jaundice diseases; Annex 2. Epidemiological investigation form for yellow fever; Annex 3. Laboratory differentiation of hemorrhagic fever and jaundice diseases; Annex 4. Function of each level of the health system; Training Module; Exercise Sheets.