University of Nairobi Communicable Disease and Substance Abuse Discussion

Communicable Disease

1-Describe the three focus areas in Healthy People 2020 objectives that apply to infectious diseases.

2-Describe the chain of transmission of infectious diseases.

3-Types of immunity, including herd immunity.

4-Identify nursing activities for control of infectious diseases at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention.

References:

READ – Textbook (pp. 488-514)

• acquired immunity, p. 498
• active immunity, p. 498
• agent, p. 494
• antigenicity, p. 496
• cold chain, p. 501
• communicable disease, p. 495
• communicable period, p. 495
• control, p. 499
• direct transmission, p. 496
• elimination, p. 499
• endemic, p. 495
• environment, p. 494
• epidemic, p. 495
• eradication, p. 499
• fomites, p. 496
• herd immunity, p. 498
• host, p. 494
• immunity, p. 497
• immunization, p. 500
• incidence, p. 495
• incubation period, p. 495
• indirect transmission, p. 496
• infection, p. 495
• infectious disease, p. 495
• infectivity, p. 496
• isolation, p. 497
• latency, p. 495
• multicausation, p. 494
• natural immunity, p. 497
• notifiable infectious diseases, p. 499
• outbreak, p. 495
• pandemic, p. 495
• passive immunity, p. 498
• pathogenicity, p. 496
• portal of entry, p. 493
• portal of exit, p. 496
• primary vaccine failure, p. 498
• quarantine, p. 497
• reservoir, p. 496
• resistance, p. 497
• secondary vaccine failure, p. 498
• susceptible, p. 497
• toxigenicity, p. 496
• universal precautions, p. 497
• vaccination, p. 500
• vectors, p. 496
• virulence, p. 496

Substance Abuse

1-Describe the current social, political, and economic aspects of substance abuse.

References:

READ – Textbook (pp. 515-541)

• abstinence, p. 530
• addiction, p. 525
• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), p. 533
• delirium tremors (DTs), p. 529
• detoxification, p. 530
• dual diagnosis, p. 538
• harm reduction, p. 534
• mutual help groups, p. 533
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), p. 520
• social consequences, p. 519
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), p. 520
• substance abuse, p. 519
• substance abuse treatment, p. 528
• War on Drugs, p. 520