Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• Identify the two main ways of classifying communicable diseases, and illustrate their usefulness.
• Describe and give examples of prevention and control measures targeting the reservoir of infection.
• Describe and give examples of prevention and control measures targeting the mode of transmission of communicable diseases.
• Describe and give examples of prevention and control measures that protect the susceptible host from communicable diseases.
• Describe the basic processes involved in community diagnosis and give examples of how you would apply these methods.