Other communicable diseases

Authors

Jane Burns, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Samantha Burrow, Edith Cowan University
Elizabeth Genovese, Edith Cowan University
Melissa Pumphery, Edith Cowan University
Ethan Sims, Edith Cowan University
Neil Thomson, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

School of Nursing and Public Health

RAS ID

1529

Comments

Burns, J. F., Burrow, S. K., Genovese, E. , Pumphery, M. , Sims, E. , & Thomson, N. J. (2003). Other communicable diseases. In Thomson, Neil (Eds.). The health of indigenous Australians (pp. 397-441). Location: Oxford University Press. Available here.

Abstract

A communicable disease is an illness that is caused by a specific infectious agent or its toxic products and that arises through transmission of that agent its products from an infected person, animal, or other reservoir to a suseptible host.