State-of-the-Art of Infectious Diseases and Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 273
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The World Health Organization defines public health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting human health through the organized efforts and conscious choices of society and public as well as private organizations, communities, and individuals. Such ambitious goals can be achieved only through the contribution of disciplines with heterogenous backgrounds and methodologies, with points in common represented by shared objectives. Indeed, public health is typically multidisciplinary.
The field of infectious diseases concerns the research and surveillance of all factors that could affect health status, both at the individual and collective levels. This ambitious goal is attainable only with the contribution of the knowledge and professional skills of different specialists through multidisciplinary integration.
This Special Issue aims to put together these two crucial topics and integrate the main literature that pursues the goals of public health and infectious diseases through six different research streams: hygiene, medical statistics, infectious diseases, internal medicine, microbiology, and parasitology.
Hygiene and medical statistics, with attention to the determinants of health and disease, to epidemiological and statistical working methods, and to the organization and evaluation of health services; microbiology and parasitology, with attention to the biological agents responsible for diseases and control strategies at both the individual and population levels; infectious diseases and internal medicine, with attention to the main diseases affecting the population, namely transmissible diseases and chronic diseases; and awareness that modern health systems cannot ignore the contributions of non-medical health professionals, such as nurses.
Dr. Guendalina Capece
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- public health
- infectious disease
- hygiene
- medical statistics
- microbiology
- parasitology
- internal medicine
- nurses
- chronic diseases
- transmissible diseases
