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  • 10 - Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control

  • from Part 1 - The Public Health Toolkit
  • Edited by Kirsteen Watson, University of Cambridge, Jan Yates, NHS England and NHS Improvement, Stephen Gillam, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Essential Public Health
    Published online:
    01 December 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 183-202

  • Summary

    Health protection refers to threats to health such as infectious diseases, environmental threats, natural hazards and threats from terrorist acts. Health protection may also overlap with action, tackling the determinants of health, especially legislative aspects such as workplace smoking bans or speed restrictions and even lifestyle choices and the health issues of ageing populations, such as increasing levels of chronic disease (which we now know may also be due to infections).

    This chapter outlines the public health aspects of communicable disease control and touches on some of the other areas now included within health protection in the UK. Important health protection terms are included in the glossary.