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

Keywords

[RSTDPub]

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.