What is Disease Control?

Disease Control: Research & Overview | Public Health International

Overview

Disease control comprises the strategies, policies, and interventions used to prevent, contain, and reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases within populations. It draws on surveillance, epidemiologic modeling, vaccination, vector and environmental management, behavioral and risk-factor intervention, and health-financing reform to lower incidence, morbidity, and mortality. For infectious disease, control measures range from outbreak response and transmission interruption, including masking and distancing during respiratory epidemics such as COVID-19 and influenza, to mathematical modeling of pathogen dynamics and intervention impact, as illustrated by analyses of typhoid fever transmission. Antimicrobial resistance and the spread of resistant organisms are increasingly central concerns. For non-communicable disease, control emphasizes prevention and risk-factor reduction, including knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward cardiovascular disease and the shift in tobacco and nicotine use patterns from smoking to vaping. Reimbursement and financing policy, demonstrated by large-scale infectious-disease reimbursement reform, shapes the reach and equity of control programs. The journal publishes peer-reviewed epidemiologic studies, policy analyses, surveys, and modeling work addressing prevention and management across infectious and chronic disease, with attention to population-level determinants and health-system responses.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2019

Success for Big Infectious Disease Reimbursement Policy in China

Nie Kun-xiCorresponding author

Department of Tourism Management, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, P.R. China

Exact topic Public Health International Cited by 4 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-19-2966

2022

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices about Cardiovascular Diseases among Adult Patients Attending Public Health Centers in Kigali city, Rwanda

Rutayisire ErigeneCorresponding author

Department of public Health, Mount Kenya University Rwanda Kigali Rwanda

Exact topic Public Health International Cited by 6 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-22-4189

2020

From Smoking to Vaping: What does Judaism have to Say?

Turner AkivaCorresponding author

Chair and Professor, Department of Health Science, Nova Southeastern University, USA

Exact topic Public Health International Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-20-3163

2020

The Reopening of Schools and Adoption of Universal Wearing of Face Masks in Anticipation of Sustained Transmission or the Second Wave of COVID-19 with the Influenza Virus

Cameron Y. S. LeeCorresponding author

Exact topic Public Health International Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-20-3442

2022

Effect of Soil and Foliar Application of Plant Nutrients on Purple Blotch and Tip-Burn of Garlic

Md. Iqbal FarukCorresponding author

Exact topic Agronomy Research Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2639-3166.jar-22-4114

2021

Evaluation of Inflammatory Serum Cytokines after Treatment with the Consciousness Energy Healing Based Proprietary Test Formulation on Combination of Cecal Slurry, LPS and E. Coli Induced Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) in Sprague Dawley Rats

Jana SnehasisCorresponding author

Trivedi Science Research Laboratory Pvt. Ltd., Thane (W), Maharashtra, India.

Exact topic Current Scientific Research doi:10.14302/issn.2766-8681.jcsr-21-3885

2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author

Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran

Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

2021