Jerome Goddard

Public Health Entomology (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of Public Health Entomology maps onto Certificate courses in public health entomology offered by universities and U.S. Centers of Excellence. It comprehensively examines vector-borne disease prevention, surveillance, and control from a governmental and public health perspective with worldwide application.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000543018
• Artikelnr.: 63580939

Autorenporträt

Jerome Goddard holds a Ph.D. in medical entomology from Mississippi State University and was a former U.S. Air Force officer (as a medical entomologist). He is currently an Extension Professor of Medical and Veterinary Entomology at Mississippi State University, where he speaks, writes, and conducts research on a wide variety of medically important pests. In addition to his extension duties, Dr. Goddard also teaches courses in medical entomology and forensic entomology, and mentors a number of graduate students. Prior to coming to MSU, Dr. Goddard was the State Medical Entomologist at the Mississippi Department of Health for 20 years where he developed and implemented vector control projects throughout the state of Mississippi. Dr. Goddard has written over 200 scientific papers, 8 book chapters, 3 single-author college-level reference or textbooks, and 10 fiction novels. He and his wife, Rosella, live in Starkville, Mississippi, and have two grown sons.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Essentials of public health and entomology 1. History of medical
entomology and public health 2. Pest control in modern public health 3.
Setting up a public health entomology program 4. Vector-borne disease
surveillance 5. Regulatory, political, and legal challenges 6. Public
health entomology preparedness 7. Operational research opportunities in
public health entomology 8. Where to go for help. Section II: Some primary
pests and conditions of public health importance 9. Mosquitoes 10. Ticks
11. Fleas 12. Lice 13. Sand flies 14. Tsetse flies 15. Black flies 16. Bed
bugs 17. Kissing bugs 18. Mites 19. Pests involved in mechanical disease
transmission 20. Arthropod bites or stings 21. Fly larvae in humans
(myiasis)