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P2.- COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE, PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Programme description
The purpose of the programme is to develop collaborative and interdisciplinary research in the field of communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control having a large impact on the community, communicable diseases being understood as diseases that are caused by specific infectious agents or their toxins and can be transmitted from a human being, an animal or a non-living source to a susceptible human host .
The main lines of research of this programme are the following: • Flu .
• Vaccine-preventable diseases having viral etiology (measles, rubella and mumps) or bacterial etiology (whooping cough, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease) .
• Epidemic outbreaks . • Viral hepatitis . • Tuberculosis-HIV . Influence of smoking . • Communicable diseases and other health problems in immigrant population .
Objectives
The strategic objectives of the present programme are the following:
• To give special attention to diseases that require mandatory reporting, including epidemic outbreaks, which sometimes cause serious public health crises .
• To generate scientific knowledge about these communicable diseases so that they can be used as a means for supporting the actions performed by the Health Administration .
• The research included in the programme will aim at controlling these diseases and will endeavour to ensure that they can be used as a means for supporting the actions performed by the Health Administration .
Strategic subprogrammes
The strategic subprogrammes defined within the framework of the communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control research programme are shown below:
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