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Management of health programmes:
Communicable diseases

• Harmonised Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-Related Infectious Diseases: an Overview
  Jamie Bartram, Lorna Fewtrell and Thor-Axel Stenström, 2001
  A simplified framework; environmental exposure assessment; acceptable risk and health targets; risk management and implementation; public health status
  (16 pages, pdf 322KB)
• Neglected diseases: a human rights analysis
  2007, Paul Hunt with Rébecca Steward, Judith Bueno de Mesquita and Lisa Oldring
  Human rights norms and standards; right to the highest attainable standard of health; obligations on states and private sector responsibility; equality, non-discrimination, and equity; participation, monitoring and accountability;
  (64 pages, pdf 642KB)
• Virulent Epidemics and Scope of Healthcare Workers' Duty of Care
  Daniel K. Sokol, US CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 12, Number 8–August 2006
  Duty of care is not fixed nor absolute but heavily dependent on context. The normal risk level of the working environment, the healthcare worker's specialty, the likely harm and benefits of treatment, and the competing obligations deriving from the worker's multiple roles will all influence the limits of the duty of care.
  (4 pages, pdf 132KB)
• “Rapid-Impact Interventions”: How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa’s Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Benefit the Poor
  David H. Molyneux, Peter J. Hotez and Alan Fenwick, 2005, PLoS Med 2(11): e336.
  Thirteen diseases; neglected diseases and the MDGs; evidence of the cost-effectiveness of integrated control; scaling up integrated control; small cost - huge impact
  (7 pages, pdf 572KB)
• WHO Outbreak Communication Guidelines
  2005, WHO/CDS/2005.28
  Communicating with the public during outbreaks; trust and transparency; early announcements
  (13 pages, pdf 453KB)
  En français: Lignes directrices de l'OMS sur la communication lors des flambées de maladies
• Advocacy – a Practical Guide with Polio Eradication as a Case Study
  The Global Polio Erradication Initiative, 1999, WHO/V&B/99.20
  Documenting the situation, packaging the message, working with the media, mobilizing others
  (36 pages, pdf 282KB)
• Guidelines on Prevention and Control of Hospital Associated Infections
  WHO Regional Office for South East Asia, 2002, SEA-HLM-343
  Magnitude of the problem; responsibilities: administration, microbiology and the infection control team; environment, sterilization and disinfection; standards and precautions; types of infections; surveillance; data collection and analysis
  (62 pages, pdf 176KB)
• Communicable Disease Control in Emergencies: A Field Manual
  M.A. Connolly (ed.), 2003, WHO/CDS/2005.27
  Methods, rapid assessment, disease outbreaks, prevention and control
  (Web page with links to 8 sections: click on the underlined headings)
• TropIKA
  The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
  A global knowledge management electronic portal to share essential information and to facilitate identification of priority needs and major research gaps in the field of infectious diseases of poverty.
  (website)
• Control of Communicable Diseases (Public Health Guide for Emergencies)
  The Johns Hopkins and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  Principles of disease control; major disease threats in an emergency; surveillance; planning and setting up control programmes; preventing outbreaks; monitoring outbreaks; monitoring and evaluation of the control programme
  (51 pages, pdf 263KB)