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Public health approaches to infectious disease
Public health approaches to infectious disease

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Dr Basiro Davey MBE.

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The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Course image: Dave Bloggs in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Figure 1: data from United Nations, 2011, The Millennium Development Goals Report: Addendum on Goal 4 ‘Reduce child mortality’

Figures 2, and 12: © Basiro Davey

Figures 3 and 9: © WHO/P.Virot

Figures 4a, 5 and 7: © WHO/TDR/Crump

Figure 4b: © WHO

Figure 6: © WHO/TDR/Martel

Figure 8: © CDC/James Hicks

Figure 10: Andy Crump, TDR, WHO/Science Photo Library

Figure 11: © HDPTCAR http://www.hdptcar.net/

Figure 13: photograph © Basiro Bavey

Figure 14a: data from: ‘Summary Points on Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Bacteraemia’, Health Protection Agnecy

Figure 14b: based on data from these Heath Protection Agency document: Summary Points on Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)

Figure 16a: © UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0184/Noorani

Figure 16b: courtesy of Echo International Health Services Ltd.

Figure 17: courtesy Dr. A. Tayeh

Figures 18, 21 and 22: courtesy of Ralph Muller

Figure 19: Cairncross, S. et al. ‘Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) and the eradication initiative’, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, April 2002, American Society for Microbiology

Figure 23: © Justin DeNormandie and Janette Sunita, population Services International (PSI) Delhi, India/WHO.

Video 1: all photos courtesy of Basiro Davey/Open University, unless otherwise stated in the video.

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