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Public Health

What "Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Infectious Diseases" entails

Preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious diseases, simply put, includes:

    Prevention
    • pubic health campaigns (depending on the nature of the scenario, at federal, state and/or local levels)
    • implementation of preventative measures, policies, legislation, etc.
  • Detection
    • assessment / surveillance
    • testing
    • consultation
  • Response
    • administering services

This page will offer a variety of resources—including news updates, web resources, online databases, journals, and books (e-books & print) on this key sub-topic of Public Health.

Erie County Public Health Update news feed from Google

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Web Resources

Databases & Journals

Databases (available via Primo)

Journals (peer reviewed & available online)

BMC Public Health - an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health. The journal has a special focus on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.

Immunity - publishes papers that report the most important advances in immunology research. The range of subjects includes, but is not limited to, immune cell development and senescence, signal transduction, gene regulation, innate and adaptive immunity, autoimmunity, infectious disease, allergy and asthma, transplantation, and tumor immunology.

Vaccinea peer-reviewed medical journal, published by Elsevier, targeted towards medical professionals who are interested in vaccines and vaccination. An interface between academics, those in research and development, and workers in the field, covering topics ranging from basic research through to applications, safety, and legislation.