Summary YR 2 CONTENT

Communicable diseases
Illness caused by viruses/bacteria that are spread from person to person
Through contact with contaminated surfaces, bodily fluids, blood products, insect bites,
airbourne

Some communicable diseases need to be reported to the government
Classifications:
Duration: acute/chronic
Medium: airbourne,water,STI,vectors
Communicable/infectious agent:
bacterial,viral,fungal,parasites
Non-communicable/infectious: genetics,
deficiencies,environmental triggers and influence
Causes of injury: physical/cellular
injury,radiation,emotional stress, internal/endogenous,
nutrients,sunlight,air, water

Management:
Hospitals: harder to treat due to hospital antibiotic use,
patients already ill- immune system compromised,
spread more difficult to manage

Routes of transmission: ventilator, catheters
Director of infection prevention and control
Infection prevention and control team

Community:
Steps to manage:




Cycle of transmission:
Infectious agent-resevoir-
portal of exit- means of transmission-portal of entry-
susceptible host