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Health Protection: Principles And Practice Is A Practical Guide For Practitioners Working At All Levels In Public Health And Health Protection, Including Those With A Non-specialist Background. It Is The First Textbook In Health Protection To Address All Three Domains Within The Field (communicable Disease Control; Emergency Preparedness, Resilience And Response (eprr); And Environmental Public Health) In A Comprehensive And Integrated Manner. Written By Leading Practitioners In The Field, The Book Is Rooted In A Practice-led, All-hazards Approach, Which Allows For Easy Real-world Application Of The Topics Discussed. The Chapters Are Arranged In Six Sections, Which Begin With An In-depth Introduction To The Principles Of Health Protection And Go On To Illuminate The Three Key Elements Of The Field By Providing: Case Studies And Scenarios To Describe Common And Important Issues In The Practice Of Health Protection; Health Protection Tools, Which Span Epidemiology And Statistics, Infection Control, Immunisation, Disease Surveillance, And Audit And Service Improvement; And Evidence About New And Emerging Health Protection Issues. It Includes More Than 100 Health Protection Checklists (simcards), Covering Infections From Anthrax To Yellow Fever, Non-infectious Diseases Emergencies And Environmental Hazards. Written From First-hand Experience Of Managing Communicable Diseases These Provide Practical, Stand-alone Quick Reference Guides For In-practice Use. Both The Topical Content Of Health Protection: Principles And Practice, And The Clearly Described Health Protection Principles The Book Provides, Makes It A Highly Relevant Resource For Wider Public Health And Health Protection Professionals In This Continually Evolving Field.