Lecture 1: Overview of Public Health

Modes of transmission for zoonotic diseases between animals and humans involve several routes: (i) via blood-feeding arthropods, such as ticks, mites, fleas, biting midges,

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne zoonotic contagious disease caused by a virus belonging genus Nairovirus in Bunyaviridae family, which is transmitted by

Cattle acquire the infection through ingestion of eggs, while the zoonotic transmission of this cestode is possible by consuming the meat of cattle infected with the larval stage of

Giardiasis is one of the most common zoonotic intestinal protozoan diseases caused by Giardia spp in the Giardiinae subfamily and occurs in humans and animals

Table 4.3: Percentage of adults ≥ 15 years old who are current smokers of various smoked tobacco products, by gender and selected demographic characteristics – GATS Turkey,

• Instruments: questionaires, interviews, exploration of existing health data, use of lists of OD’s, use of GP’s as surveillance officers. •

It covers assessments of sanitary and occupational hygiene conditions, factors in the organization of work which may pose risks to the health of workers, collective and

 To interpret the number of cases you need the number of people in the population at risk and calculate the rate.  To measure case frequency you can use incidence and