Control of Communicable Diseases Manual 19th edition (CCDM 19)

CCDM has been a widely recognized reference book on infectious diseases since its first edition in 1916. Public health professionals, and students have relied on the CCDM and its key concepts — epidemiology of infectious disease, surveillance, prevention and control. Each listing is updated every four years, is easy to read and includes identification, infectious agent, occurrence, mode of transmission, incubation period, susceptibility and resistance. For the 19th edition, updates were carried out by experts from around the world. New disease variants were included and new chapters were added, following feedback from previous editions, in order to keep the manual as relevant as possible. The new chapters include topics fundamental to public health, such as responding to an outbreak report, the International Health Regulations, deliberate release outbreaks and practical guidance in disease control at mass gatherings, after natural disasters, or in complex emergency situations. The American Public Health Association (APHA) and Unbound Medicine – a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare – recently released CCDM19 for Mobile + Web. Up-to-date information about infectious diseases is vital to the public health professionals working to track and contain them. CCDM for Mobile + Web puts this information in a proven, rapid-access format on mobile devices and the Web.

CCDM for Mobile + Web includes MEDLINE Journals and allow users to view citations and abstracts from the latest issues in selected journals including the Bulletin of the WHO, and then to link to full-text articles. CCDM for Mobile + Web also includes RSS news feeds from relevant sites such as APHA, the WHO and the CDC and permits readers of CCDM to benefit from real time 21st century communication as they search for information on or about infectious diseases.