Communicable Disease Control in Emergencies: A Field Manual World Health Organization. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Press, 2005; 295 pp., US$36
The book Communicable Disease Control in Emergencies is a field manual published for health care and public health professionals working in complex emergency and disaster situations. The purpose of the manual is to provide the tools needed to detect, prevent and control the transmission of major communicable diseases in the affected populations.
The book is divided into 5 chapters. chapter 1 (Rapid assessment) focuses on the criteria needed to develop a team to manage communicable diseases, and identifies the criteria for assessing, …